Costas Ferris

Plot synopsis
A 40-year old man (Kostas Ferris) has reached a milestone of his life. Representing the generation that lived the French rebellion in May ’68, he doesn’t fit into any ideological or social group. Thrown out by everyone, he leaves the coenobium where he was staying. He goes out on the streets, meets old friends and people his age and he gets back together with his old girlfriend as well. He disapproves of a system that may have given birth to him, but which he obstinately refuses to accept. As, neither love nor profound theory can fill his empty soul, he directs his theatrical death.Read More »

Considered to be one of the most powerful and emotional Greek movies, Rembetiko focuses on the life of an individual woman, a real person, and through her personal story, it retells the story of Greece, from 1920 to 1955: the national disaster in Minor Asia, the one million refugees who came to Greece, the World War II, the Nazi occupation, the Civil War, immigration. The revival of an era, the recall of lost ethics of the old time musicians, and all the elements of a popular music drama, compose this epic masterpiece, accompanied by the music and songs of Stavros Xarhakos (most of them with lyrics by Nikos Gkatsos).

A voyage to history of the first half of the 20th century, but also a voyage to the origins of rembetiko – a Greek form of urban blues performed in lowclass joints where the social misfits of the twenties known as “rembetes” gathered.Read More »