Christos Tsagas

Filodoxies

Iphigenia

The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia.

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Safe Sex

A satire of life in modern Greece, presented through a series of different stories about sex. There are several couples and their relation with sex in parallel stories that come together in a hilarious way.

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Drifting Cities

The adventures of a left-wing revolutionary, Manos Simonides, who during the difficult years of the war goes underground and hides in a boarding house in Jerusalem. In the same place, which is a small Babel, other refugees from Greece, Egypt and other allied countries also live and hide. Among them are people of different religions, a Greek who fought in the Spanish Civil War, an Austrian former minister with his wife, various adventurers, traffickers, agents, intellectuals, communists and fascists. Manos falls in love with Emmi, the Austrian's wife, but she, while she loves him passionately, does not have sexual intercourse with him, preferring to surrender to the abnormal appetites of a trafficker.

Ephemeral Town

A man trying to get in touch with his past is confronted with the realities of his nation's future in this drama. Andreas (Giorgos Dialegmenos) is an elderly man who finds himself caught in a wave of nostalgia about the home where he grew up with his mother. Andreas decides to travel to the Greek island where he and his mother lived in hopes of visiting his boyhood home, but he soon discovers that things have changed a great deal over the years; many familiar landmarks are gone, and no one on the island is terribly interested in helping him find his way. After much searching, Andreas thinks he's found the place where he grew up, only to discover the house is gone, and a group of refugees have set up camp on what used to be the family's property. Efimeri Poli was the first dramatic feature from director Giorgos Zafiris after helming a series of well-respected documentaries.

Der Fall Ö.

During the Greek summer in the war year of 1944, a German military unit sets up camp on the plateau of Thebes. Armed with a 16 mm camera, the captain of the unit, a former professor for classical Greek philology, comes up with the idea to film the myth of Oedipus.

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Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927

A biographical film about the great Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos for the period between 1910-1927. The film highlights his vision of a Greater Greece and refers to important events in Greek history such as the formation of a government by Venizelos after the Goudi movement, his dispute with the King over Greece's stance in the First World War, the temporary his withdrawal from politics after his defeat in the 1920 elections and the Asia Minor disaster. A biography of the former Greek prime minister Eleftherios Venizelos and the recreation of his acts and the political and social climate in Greece from 1910 to 1927.

Conflict of Emotions

A drug addict meets an aristocratic woman who married a criminal.

The Photograph

A young Greek man goes to Paris seeking help from a solitary and almost misanthropic distant relative who works as a furrier. With him, he takes nothing from his homeland but a photograph of a woman that he finds on the pavement. A misunderstanding regarding the photograph sets off a series of dramatic misunderstandings which trap him in a vicious circle of lies and fantasies.

The Last Wager

Orestes is a journalist who used to be part of a radical left-wing group. When two of the people who sent members of this organization to prison are murdered, the police accuse him of being responsible. He, being in a difficult and troubled psychological and ideological state, will accept the role of scapegoat.