A monk leads a procession. A girl is rescued from prostitution. Two college boys become perpetrators of violent incidents. An elderly man is exploited by a policewoman. A couple tries to recover their relationship. A woman expresses her anger to a civil servant. A man secretly kidnaps his best friend. Seven different stories about love in modern Greece, from people who seek it, find it, lose it.
Purgatory
Καθαρτήριο
63rd TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Vassilis Mazomenos
- Script: Vassilis Mazomenos, Vassilis Goudelis
- Cinematography: Fotis Mitsis
- Editing: Alexandros Christaras, Eve Loi
- Sound: Kostas Chrysogelos, Antonis Samaras
- Music: Michalis Nivolianitis, Alexandros Christaras
- Actors: Maria Zorba, Yannis Kokiasmenos, Andreas Natsios, Angeliki Karystinou, Kostas Baras, Thodoros Katsafados, Nefeli Kouri, Ilektra Gennata
- Production: Horme Pictures, Prosenghisi Film & Video Productions
- Producers: Vassilis Mazomenos, Panos Papadopoulos
- Co-production: ERT SA, EKOME SA
- Co-producers: Kostas Alatas
- Costumes: Sophia Katsoura
- Sets: Dimitra Panagiotopoulou
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Greece
- Production Year: 2022
- Duration: 95΄
- Distribution in Greece: Alatas Films (Kostas Alatas, vasilisalatasfilms@yahoo.gr)
- Contact: Horme Pictures (info@hormepictures.com)
Vassilis Mazomenos
Vassilis Mazomenos is a Greek director, writer, and producer, as well as a member of both the European Film Academy and the Hellenic Film Academy. Founder and director of Horme Pictures, he is the director of ten feature films and the producer of forty shorts.
Filmography
1995 Day of Rage, a Requiem for Europe
1996 The Triumph of Time
1998 Money, a Mythology of Darkness
2002 Remembrance
2004 Words and Sins
2009 Guilt
2012 10th Day
2016 Lines
2019 Exile
2022 Purgatory
