Known for Acting
In this fast-paced Greek wedding comedy, young lovers Ilias and Marina arrive on the island of Crete for their wedding, along with their large, boisterous families all eager to celebrate the nuptials. However, when a typo on the wedding invitation confuses the reception venue and scatters the guests in different directions, they embark on a collision course of increasingly comedic proportions.
A romantic drama filmed mostly in Corfu and the television reappearance after many years of the much-loved Thanasis Vengou. Athena lives with her capricious sister in a mansion in Corfu. A "sailor" moves into the house next door, who, after spending all his years at sea, inherited this house in Corfu from his aunt. A tender friendship develops between them, which will however be shaken when Athena's stepdaughter falls in love with the "sailor's" son, who is a pilot, in Paris. Athena sounds the alarm because she learns that the pilot is a womanizer with two failed marriages to his credit and also because she does not want to ruin her daughter's engagement to Lelos, the son of a very wealthy businessman with hotels in Corfu.
The video film was created by the review of the same name, which was staged at the "Vembo" theater in the period 1987-1988.
A gifted electrician, Michalis Karamanos works for Greek Telecommunications Organization and it seems that he is the only one who hasn't been completely absorbed by the corrupt and all-devouring system. Acting as a member of the revolutionary organization Constitutional Struggle, which is fighting against the unpopular policy of the government, he connects the computer of the director of OTE to an explosive device. He threatens to destroy the telecommunications of the country if he is not allowed to broadcast on television his revolutionary message during the broadcast of an important football game. The Authorities, thinking that he has gone crazy, try to bring him around using his old friends from the army, whom they pick up one by one as intermediaries. This is a situation comedy with excellent, mature plot development, plenty of suspense as well as masterful criticism of sociopolitical reality.
Dimitris Apostolou is a successful lawyer and former minister. He lives peacefully with his wife and daughter, leading an uneventful family life. Tassos, a dear friend of his, tries to convince him to make his life a little more fun by escaping from the daily grind, but he is not convinced. Dimitris meets Aliki, a journalist by profession, who becomes his lover but also writes his biography. However, someone from his past comes to disturb his peace...
Michalis returns to the tobacco growers of his rural village after having spent some time in the city and persuades them to form a collective, rather than suffer the poverty-inducing prices they are paid for their crops by tobacco brokers. They agree not to sell to any of the brokers and start to form a farmers' group. When one of the farmers breaks the agreement and is found dead, Michalis is accused. However, rather than expose the farmers' plight and give publicity to the brokers' greed, the motive the government gives for the killing is thi asimanton aformin, for unimportant reasons.
