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Maria Komninos, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Sociology Department, Alumnus. Studies Sociology, Modernity, and Film Theory. I am Professor of Political Communication and Sociology at the Department of Media and Communication at
Nov 24, 2020 · Maria Komninos, head of the Greek Film Archive, talks with us about the restoration of long-lost film, The Apaches of Athens, a landmark Greek film recently screened in the Limited Edition of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. Originally released in 1930, this is a landmark film in Greek film history, though it was lost for several decades.
- “Face to Face” (1966), Roviros Manthoulis
- Vortex, The Face of Medusa (1967), Nikos Koundouros
- Open Letter (1967), Yiorgos Stamboulopoulos
- Kierion (1968), Dimostheos
- Days of ’36 (1972), Theo Angelopoulos
- Yes, But… (1972), Pavlos Tasios
- The Matchmaking of Anna (1972), Pantelis Voulgaris
- John The Violent (1973), Tonia Marketaki
- Black + White (1973), Thanassis Rentzis-Nikos Zervos
- Megara (1974), Sakis Maniatis – Yiorgos Tsemberopoulos
A timid young English teacher is hired as a private tutor to the daughter of a nouveau riche family, who have arranged her marriage to an English businessman. The teacher falls in love with his student and becomes involved in a triangle with the mother and daughter. Realizing the futility of this relationship and disillusioned by society’s hypocris...
The shooting of this film began in the summer of 1966 in Crete and was completed, after many revisions to its screenplay and original outline, in London, during Nikos Koundouros’s self-imposed exile during the dictatorship. It is a story of “cannibalism”, focusing on an attractive female, who, like a medusa or spider, devours any male without inhib...
Filmed during the dictatorship and censored by the regime, the film by Yiorgos Stamboulopoulos tells the story of a young lower-middle-class man, born at the time of the German Occupation and prepped by prevalent circumstances to compromise for ease and comfort. The young man tries to suppress his thoughts and instincts, looking for some sort of es...
The film is inspired partly by the well-known Polk affair – i.e. the murder of American journalist George Polk, who had come to Greece during the civil war to interview the military leader of the communists Markos Vafeiadis and was found dead under mysterious circumstances – and partly by the recent at that time six-day war (5–10 June 1967). In the...
A trade unionist is assassinated at a workers’ rally and Sofianos, an ex-police informer who has fallen into disfavour, is arrested and charged with the murder. Sofianos desperately tries to prove his innocence, but to no avail. When he is visited in prison by a conservative Member of Parliament, he uses a smuggled gun to take the politician hostag...
A journalist (Alexis Damianos) tries to explain the murder of a girl by her lover followed by his suicide. Examining the man’s past, he discovers that he had an unsuccessful marriage and was living in untold loneliness and desperation. An innovative, landmark film that looked at how the rapid and violent changes taking place in Greek society affect...
Anna, a maid in a middle-class Athenian household, is reluctantly introduced to her prospective husband Kosmas by the family she works for in an arranged marriage setup. The two meet and spend their Sundays together happily. In the aftermath of the matchmaking however, the family realizes that they will thus lose her services for good threatening t...
Athens, midnight; on a deserted street, a beautiful woman named Eleni Chalkia is fatally stabbed by a stranger, who immediately disappears into the shadows of the night. Ioannis Zachos, a mentally unstable young man, often fantasizes about killing beautiful women, confirming thus his fragile masculinity and his passion for power. When he is arreste...
A young man (YiorgosTsemperopoulos) arrives in Athens to study at the School of Fine Arts. He doesn’t let the events of the Athens Polytechnic uprising in November 1973 affect his studies, and he also begins an affair with a girl. Initially, he gets a job in a gallery and then in an advertising company.
The documentary is about the struggle of olive growers in Megara to fight the Junta’s decision to expropriate a large agricultural region for the installation of an oil refinery. The last part of the film documents how the peasants, after hearing the court’s decision to support the expropriation, join in protest the uprising of the Polytechnic Scho...
Sep 20, 2014 · Polychromia studios 2014
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- Maria Komninos
The House of Komnenos (pl. Komnenoi; Greek: Κομνηνός, pl. Κομνηνοί, [komniˈni]), Latinized as Comnenus (pl. Comneni), was a Byzantine Greek noble family who ruled the Byzantine Empire in the 11th and 12th centuries. The first reigning member, Isaac I Komnenos, ruled from 1057 to 1059.
Maria Komninos, film theorist / George Kontos, film director / Michalis Konstandatos, film director / Kostas Konstandinidis, film critic / Valery Kontakos, film director / Maria Kontogianni, producer / Xenofon Kontopoulos, sound recorder / Konstantinos Kontovrakis, producer / Nikos Kornilios, film director / Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis, film ...
Maria Komninos is known for Escape Under Pressure (2000), The Wedding Veil Journey (2023) and Sniper: Legacy (2014).
