Hades

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1 hour 30 minutes – 1996 – Drama, Mystery

The first fictional film from Greek documentary filmmaker Stelios Haralambopoulos, “Hades” reworks motifs from Ancient Greek mythology in terms of recent Balkan history, tracing the quest of an Athenian lawyer for a missing woman.

He is suffocating in his marriage to his wife, Kynthia,and seizes the opportunity to travel to Epirus. Leaving his familiar surroundings, he gradually enters another world, unknown and mysterious. His journey resembles the descent to Hades, and his visit to the supposed entrance to the underworld is revelatory.

CAST

Giorgos Morogiannis
Periklis Moustakis
Evri Sofroniadou
Nantia Deliyanni
Marianthi Sontaki
Dimitris Tzoumakis
Manos Vakoussis

CREDITS

DIRECTOR: Stelios Charalambopoulos
SCREENPLAY: Stelios Charalambopoulos
Thanos Lambropoulos, Vangelis Papadakis
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Yannis Varvarigos
EDITING: Ioanna Spiliopoulou
MUSIC: Panagiotis Kalatzopoulos
SETS: Anastasia Arseni
COSTUMES: Anastasia Arseni
SOUND: Marinos Athanassopoulos,
Thymios Kolokousis, Vangelis Papadopoulos,
Costas Skiadas, Yorgos Vassiliou

AWARDS

THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL
Special Mention
Best Debut Director (Stelios Charalambopoulos)

REVIEWS

A descent into Hades illustrated allegorically through the journey of a lawyer to Epirus where he looks for a woman who has been missing for more than 20 years. The result is a visually charming cinematic wander in which the natural beauties of Epirus which is the real protagonist in a somewhat complicated story, collide with the inner darkness of all heroes.

The lawyer (Georgos Morogiannis) wanders around like a zombie, haunted by his own personal impasses. At the same time the film lyrically, but not always successfully, tries to touch the issue of Albanian immigration to Greece, which at the time of the making of the film, was very timely.

Yannis Zoumboulakis – TO VIMA

STELIOS CHARALAMBOPOULOS

He was born in Athens in 1956. He studied economics and film in Greece and pursued postgraduate studies in economics in Paris. In 1988, he co-founded the film production company PERIPLOUS with producer Thanos Lambropoulos and cinematographer Yiannis Varvarigos. Since then, he has directed numerous documentaries for television and cinema, as well as feature films. His films were successfully screened and awarded in Greece and abroad. He was also the editor of the literary and arts magazine GRAPHI. His writings on cinema have been published in various magazines, and he has also published a poetry collection.

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