The Girls of the Rain

Girls of the Rain concludes Alida Dimitriou’s filmtrilogy on the contribution of women to political struggles in Greece during the twentieth century. The film is about women imprisoned and tortured during the Colonels’ dictatorship of 1967-1974. At the time, these womenwere in their twenties. Fifty women offer their testimonials. They all share the ethos of the women who took part in the National Resistance, and pursue the establishment of human dignity just as persistently. The “Girls of the Rain” consider themselves successors of those women. One of them said:“...we are their successors, just like the youth of today are our successors”. Remarkably, these are the words of a woman deprived by her torturers of the ability to have children.
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Script: Alida Dimitriou
Cinematography: Alexis Grivas, Afroditi Nikolaidou
Editing: Alida Dimitriou
Producers: Alida Dimitriou
Format: DigiBeta Color-B&W
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2011
Duration: 120
Contact: Alida Dimitriou Greece T. +30 210 9810 549 alida.sotiris@gmail.com

Alinda Dimitriou

Filmography

1977 Coalmen (short)
1978 Spata, Saint Peter’s Stew
1982 Fournoi, A Female Society (co-direction)
1984 Dimitris Pikionis
1985 Theater on the Μountain
1988 Human Rights
1994 All of Us
1995 Athens (short)
1995 For a Μoment (short)
2003 Life on the Wires (short)
2008 Birds in the Mire
2009 Among the Rocks
2011 The Girls of the Rain