Children of Helidona

  • November 23, 2023 / 15:30

Director: Costas Vrettakos
Cast: Vassilis Diamantopoulos, Mary Hronopoulou, Mara Martika, Ilias Logothetis
Greece, 1987, 118', DCP, color
Greek with Turkish, English subtitles

The film, adapted from Dionysis Haritopoulos's novel of the same name, centers around a journalist and a director who travel to the rural village of Helidona in Greece to produce a television documentary. Investigating the experiences of a family torn apart by political reasons, the duo will uncover fragments of a tragic story that spans from the Civil War to the 1980s.

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