Synopsis
Pantelis Voulgaris directed this three-part Greek anthology film in which three middle-aged men confront their personal demons. In the 40-minute “A Silver Coin on the Lips,” a Macedonian archaeologist (Dimitris Katalifos) stumbles onto the remains of a soldier with a coin on his lips, payment to the ferryman Charon of legend; this discovery reminds him of his son’s death, and he departs for the border outpost where the death occurred. A 34-minute segment, “The Last of the Lesser Whites,” takes place in Thrace where ornithologists meet with the game warden (Thanassis Vengos) who watches over a beautiful wilderness area with thousands of birds. A Norwegian woman in the group seeks the only known survivor of rare Bergen geese, but a poacher shoots it. The 40-minute “Vietnam” follows a rich factory owner (Giorgos Armenis), a man in such a state of emotional torment after his wife of many years leaves him that he drunkenly destroys a bar named Vietnam. Shown at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival.
Bob Stewart, Allmovie

Ola.Einai.Dromos.AKA.Its.a.Long.Road.1998.1080p.CINOBO.WEB-DL.DD2.0.H.264-Gloft.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 0 min
Size: 	5.15 GiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	5 892 kb/s
BPP: 	0.118
Audio
#1:  	Greek 2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 kb/s (Greek)

https://nitro.download/view/9BFB54DC050F651/Ola.Einai.Dromos.AKA.Its.a.Long.Road.1998.1080p.CINOBO.WEB-DL.DD2.0.H.264-Gloft.mkv

Language(s):Greek
Subtitles:English Forced, French, German

The post Pantelis Voulgaris – Ola einai dromos AKA It’s a Long Road (1998) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Anna is the Jewish daughter of a Spanish mother and a Greek father. She has returned to her family’s house in Greece after many of her friends and family members have died over the years. Although she came back to the house in order to sell it, things begin to take a different direction: The house itself, the furniture and other equipment in it seem to become alive for Anna, recalling images of her past, her beloved parents and her friend Max, who once gave her shelter from the raging policemen when she took part as a photo journalist in a political demonstration in Berlin. Anna changes her mind: When some rich, ignorant American couple wondering about if they should buy the house asks for the swimming pool (while the Mediterranean is half a mile away), she simply doubles the charge, and finally puts the “For sale” plate into the garbage can. In the meantime, she has had a little love affair with a young man from the village, found a girlfriend from her childhood days, swum in the sea, and found a way to live in peace with her melancholic memories.

1.26GB | 1h 44m | 762×412 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/3684B2EE2ED30D0/Annas.Sommer.2001.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English Spanish French German Greek

The post Jeanine Meerapfel – Annas Sommer AKA Anna’s Summer (2001) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

“Constantine P. Cavafy, also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, or Kavaphes (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβάφης) (April 29, 1863 – April 29, 1933) was a renowned Greek poet who lived in Alexandria and worked as a journalist and civil servant. In his poetry he examined critically some aspects of Christianity, patriotism, and homosexuality, though he was not always comfortable with his role as a nonconformist. He published 154 poems; dozens more remained incomplete or in sketch form. His most important poetry was written after his fortieth birthday.

This movie about the greatest modern Greek poet was met with criticism from Greek audiences on two grounds. It focuses almost exclusively on Cavafy’s sexuality (a topic the average Greek high school teacher still prefers to bypass) and it presents the peculiar innovation of having Cavafy not speak a single word throughout the entire movie. Many Greek viewers considered the latter device completely antithetical to the poet’s eloquent verse. The only voice of the poet in the movie are his poems which are recited in the background over many scenes.

The movie does not cover all of Cavafy’s life in detail but sketches the main episodes and definitely recreates the atmosphere of his poetry. The breathtaking cinematography is light years ahead of most films made in Greece. Everyone interested in the poet’s work should watch it, but better read a short biographical note on him first because the movie itself is too poetic to follow a rigid narrative structure.”

“C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) was a Greek poet who wrote exquisitely about his beloved cities, Alexandria and Constantinople, and about the beautiful, sexually available men who lived in them. Thanks to Lawrence Durrell’s frequent favorable mention of him in his popular novels The Alexandria Quartet, Cavafy has become a figure of considerable literary interest outside of Greek and homosexual circles. Part biography, part fantasy, but very much in the spirit of the poet’s work, this film begins in 1933 as a young literateur reads to Cavafy (Vassilis Diamandopoulos), lying abed in an Alexandrian hospital. Cavafy drifts away into memories from his life and the film takes up his story from childhood.”
Clarke Fountain, AllMovie

“Yannis Smaragdis’ Cavafy was a remarkable yet uneven attempt to depict the biography of the great poet—a film that tried to reconstruct visually the temporality of his poems through an introspection which, in a strange way, resisted the challenge of Cavafy’s homosexuality. Through its over-aestheticization, the film undervalues the male body as the ultimate hypertext in Cavafy’s poems. Sensuality without sexuality makes the film somehow a middle-class exercise in mainstreaming Cavafy’s eroticism. Actor Dimitris Katalifos gave a compelling performance full of sensitivity and reserve, although occasionally he looks lost and bewildered, showing that something greater was happening in the mind of the poet at the very
moment when he was enjoying his sexuality…”
Vrasidas Karalis, A History of Greek Cinema, p. 236, Continuum

1.28GB | 1h 15m | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8102702A1DC5427/Kavafis_AKA_Cavafy_(Yannis_Smaragdis_1996).mkv
or
https://nitro.download/view/43B61AD0E29EA20/Kavafis_AKA_Cavafy_(Yannis_Smaragdis_1996).part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/18D60992C80D7D8/Kavafis_AKA_Cavafy_(Yannis_Smaragdis_1996).part2.rar

Language(s):Greek, English, French
Subtitles:English, Greek

The post Yannis Smaragdis – Kavafis AKA Cavafy (1996) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
In the Greek community of Ethiopia in the 1960s, a rich Greek disrupts the relationship between his well-bred daughter and a young man. Three decades later they meet again…Cast:
Ivonni Maltezou
Dimitris Katalifos
Ekavi Douma
Yannis Dritsas
Thanos Samaras
Giorgos Mihailidis
Thodoros Roubanis
Panos Thanassoulis (as Panagiotis Thanasoulis)
Michele Valley
Anna Mascha
Rania Ekonomidou

1.47GB | 1h 42mn | 764×430 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9B3E766BECAE9F3/Alemaya.mkv

Language:Greek
Subtitles:English (soft subs)

The post Ilias Giannakakis – Alemaya (2004) first appeared on Cinema of the World.