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Dennis Iliadis

Greece 2004 100 35mm Colour

Film description

Having both left their hostile homes at the tender age of sixteen, Martha and Nadia meet in a lowlife prostitution ring in downtown Athens. Martha has plunged in her new ‘profession’ with masochistic abandon, obtaining a twisted gratification in people actually paying to consume her. Nadia, on the other hand, is not there to stay. Robbed of their childhoods, they form an erotic relationship devastating in its tenderness, a childish shield to their vicious abuse and degradation. As this degradation escalates, Nadia exploits Martha’s total dependence on her and drags her into a series of equally vicious murders that will grant them the "liberation" they so desperately seek. They are caught, then released, as Nadia proves to have perpetrated the murders under a cold, shockingly calculated plan. Offering an irresistible mix of good looks, evil sexiness and childish innocence, she now becomes ‘flavor of the month’. Less equipped and totally unstable, Martha is unable to follow Nadia but desperate to keep their relationship alive. She will do anything to drag her down, to protect their little ‘family unit’. Her degradation reaches new heights of a darker, deeper nature. Her cry for tenderness will become a terrifying weapon, leading them to tragedy...

i There are no scheduled screenings.

CAST & CREW

DENNIS ILIADIS

SPONSORS

COSMOTE
Alphabank
Fischer
Aegean

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