Giannis in the Cities

Θολός βυθός

TIFF65: World Premiere
1949, towards the end of the Greek Civil War. Yannis, the son of a rebel, is torn from his village and deported to the Childcare Cities where his ideas and desires are manipulated. Nightmares and dark feelings for his father slowly inhabit his heart. Only when he reaches adulthood does he redefine his existence, so he decides to go and meet the man. Based on the life story of Greek writer Yannis Atzakas.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Available at the Agora Market TIFF65.
Direction: Eleni Alexandrakis
Script: Eleni Alexandrakis, Panayotis Evangelidis
Cinematography: Dionysis Efthymiopoulos
Editing: Christos Giannakopoulos
Sound: Nikos Papadimitriou
Music: Nikos Xydakis
Actors: Philippos Milikas, Marios Konstantinos Galetzas, Konstantinos Athanassakis, Aineias Tsamatis, Agni Stroumbouli, Stelios Mainas, Evi Saoulidou, Aglaia Papa, Konstantinos Seiradakis, Katia Leclerc O'Wallis, Katia Goulioni, Evdoxia Androulidakis, Themis Panou, Maria Kallimani, Andreas Marianos, Manolis Mavromatakis
Production: Pomegranate Films 2
Producers: Eleni Alexandrakis
Co-production: Alatas Films, Authorwave, Tamarisk, Greek Film Centre, ERT SA, EKOME SA / Sponsored by: DSHOP
Co-producers: Kostas Alatas, Panos Bisdas, Christos Giannakopoulos
Costumes: Despina Chimona
Sets: Yorgos Georgiou
Make Up: Mary Stavrakaki
Format: DCP
Color: B/W
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2024
Duration: 90'
Distribution in Greece: Feelgood Entertainment, (Irini Souganidou, isouganidou@feelgoodentertainment.gr)
Contact: Eleni Alexandraki (elenialexandrakis@gmail.com)

Eleni Alexandrakis

She was born in 1957 in Athens. She studied Cinema at Sorbonne (Paris I, graduated in 1980) and at the National Film and TV School in the United Kingdom (and graduated in 1985). She writes, directs, and produces fiction and documentary films, guided by the belief there is no difference between the two. Her films have won several awards in Greece and abroad.

Filmography

1990 The Children of Greece (TV)
1994 Tonia Marketaki (short doc)
1995 A Drop in the Ocean 
1999 Easter is in the Air (doc)
2002 About the Holy and Mysterious Myhr (doc)
2018 Costis Papagiorgis, the Sweetest Misanthrope (doc)
2019 Angel and the Weightlifter
2022 Uprootings (doc)
2024 Giannis in the Cities