Synopsis:
Andreas is a car thief. The cars he steals he turns over to people with whom he has minimal relations. His only friends are a prostitute who helps him in his jobs and a fisherman with whom he once did time in jail. One day he has a chance encounter with Ismini who lures him into a dangerous game.

U-turn was screened in the “Greek Film Noir” section of the 48th Thessaloniki International Festival.

1.13GB | 1h 21m | 694×442 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/2C791CF9F3EA155/kleisti_strofi.mkv

Language(s):Greek
Subtitles:None

The post Nikos Grammatikos – Kleisti strofi AKA U-turn (1991) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
The Summer of 1987. Six friends from Salamina meet in one of the island’s cafes. Then, and over the following seven years, they experience maturation as a gradual drawing-away from the paradise of their adolescent unconcern, and the emotional bonds between them slowly wither. They realize that they are no longer the center of the world and that they have been absorbed by a social system that is deadly serious. Year-in-year-out, their meetings take place less and less frequently. Every time they return to the island, they carry with them traces of different personal experiences that all the more bear the marks of modern social reality. They experience this change as a kind of decay and corruption. At the same time, their once-solid friendship inevitably fades away.

1.59GB | 1h 51m | 775×436 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/EDC70786D44A9FC/apontes.mkv
or
https://nitroflare.com/view/644F2ED1F106209/apontes.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/0EFE3656C723E9D/apontes.part2.rar

Language(s):Greek
Subtitles:English

The post Nikos Grammatikos – Apontes (1996) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis wrote:
Trying to turn his back on a dark past, a thirty-year-old man returns to his hometown in the Peloponnese with the hope of making a fresh start. The local society treats him with hostility, but he doesn’t give up and manages to integrate into this new environment. When, however, a girl who knows about his past comes into his life, he is driven to conflict with the people around him and, in the end, to his own destruction.

Vrasidas Karalis wrote:
A special film was Nikos Grammatikos’ The King (O Vasilias), an attempt to explore the secretive and insular society of a Greek village as a young man returns to start anew after escaping his former life of drug addiction and urban squalor. The suspicion, fear, and malice of a society that has no place for the stranger (in this film the social outcast is the stranger) are explored through a realistic cinematic language reminiscent of Lars von Trier’s visual idiom—yet fierce social criticism and a deep empathy for the outcast stops the film short of pretension or self-indulgence. The main character (superbly performed by Vangelis Mourikis) moves through the claustrophobic village, the topos where presumably authentic Greek hospitality abides, with horror and detachment, unable to achieve the transforming redemption through interaction with the purity of natural life. The outcast discovers that the village is the ultimate infernal punishment for his inability to take control of his self and act with responsibility. Through unstable shots, constant camera movement and unnerving close-ups, Grammatikos constructs a story against the background of burnt forests and abandoned houses, creating a tragic atmosphere of absence and lack. The film stands out as the new parable of the character of the Greek countryside, depicting it as a place of imprisonment and exile.

Karalis, Vrasidas. A History of Greek Cinema. New York, NY: Continuum, 2012. link

https://nitro.download/view/8CC007C79093EA0/O_Vasilias_AKA_The_King__Nikos_Grammatikos__2002.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/AD3ECF310C0599F/O_Vasilias_Extras.rar

Language(s):Greek
Subtitles:English

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