Synopsis:
A gruff highlander leaves his village and heads to the town and harbor where he will embark for Australia. We follow his descent to the sea through three stories.
At first, he works with a blacksmith he knows, but his erotic attraction to the pure girlfriend of his friend puts him to flight.
Later on, he meets a sensual tomboy who symbolizes all the enchantment of wild nature, and her destiny is to end up in a brothel.
Finally, at the harbor of Piraeus, where he stays in the humble house of a couple who are separating, he meets a crestfallen woman, who is weary from poverty and abandonment, and together they take the ship of voluntary exile.

1.43GB | 1h 28m | 762×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/86F07BF32997A1E/mehri_to_ploio_(Cornerstone)_(1967)_–_Alexis_Damianos.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/906E42543BBE369/mehri_to_ploio_(Cornerstone)_(1967)_–_Alexis_Damianos.srt

Language(s):Greek
Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post Alexis Damianos – …mehri to ploio AKA Cornerstone AKA Until the Ship Sails (1966) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Three young people have decided to rob the safe of the estate agent Thomas Christidis, whose office is in the center of Athens. The first of them is Ntinos, who is Christidis’ clerk, the second one is Stavros, Ntinos’ younger brother who works as a book representative, while their friend Michalis is a pirate taxi-driver. The robbery is successful, and they feel excited (tainiothiki.gr)

Vangelis Serdaris’ Robbery in Athens (Listeia stin Athina, 1969) was an accomplished and masterful attempt to reinvent film noir by infusing it with a new sense of filmic temporality through an elongation of time, a slowing down of action, and a prolonging of silences (not unlike Jules Dassin’s 1955 Rififi).

In his film debut, Serdaris explores the underworld of Athens with remarkable honesty, psychological characterization, and impartiality. His camera discreetly pans in and out to capture an unpredictable contrast between internal and external space, employing expressionist techniques, which transform the urban landscape into a surrealist nightmare.

Unfortunately, the film didn’t receive the attention it deserved, not evenfor its delirious music by Nikos Theodosiadis. Given also the fact that some of the most important representatives of the new cinema contributed to its making (Theo Angelopoulos, Pandelis Voulgaris, Dimos Theos, and others), one could claim that Serdaris’ movie was one of the main links between the commercial cinema of the 1960s and the aesthetics of the New Greek Cinema that was to emerge several years later (Vrasidas Karalis – A History of Greek Cinema)

1.00GB | 1h 19m | 720×540 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/83C034575634C85/Listeia_stin_Athina_(1969)_tvrip.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/F0FF2823403FCC3/Listeia_stin_Athina_(1969).srt
or
https://nitroflare.com/view/1417604EE92B50A/Listeia_stin_Athina_(1969)_tvrip.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/2BE9602CDB002EF/Listeia_stin_Athina_(1969)_tvrip.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/F0FF2823403FCC3/Listeia_stin_Athina_(1969).srt

Language(s):Greek
Subtitles:English

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Quote:
Ilias Apostolou, a young furrier who has had a hard time under the dictatorship, leaves Castoria in 1971 to emigrate to France, where he hopes to join a distant relative of his, Gerassimos Tzivas, who has been living there since 1950. With him, he takes nothing from his homeland but a photograph of a person that he finds on the pavement. He asks Gerassimos to help him in finding work in Paris. A misunderstanding around the photograph, however, sets off a series of dramatic events.

2.54GB | 1h 52mn | 956×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/DBDDBE270E185A5/I_fotografia_(Papatakis,_1986).576p.mkv

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

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