Giannis Fertis

fantastical human story

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

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"The annual balance is $25,000,000, five deaths and three paralytics." The difficulties, the dangers and the joys of a small place in the Dodecanese that lives by sponge fishing. Every dive hides the danger of divers' disease, every journey is a battle with the sea, while on land wives, parents and widows are left waiting. The ritual preparation of a diver before diving. The everyday life of the women and the festive reception of the mops when they return. Life during the months they stay on the island, along with the entire cycle of processing and trading the sponges. The great festival before their departure for another six to seven months. A multi-award winning documentary about daily toil, human pain and the joy that inevitably accompanies it in the cycle of life.

A girl from the countryside comes to Athens, stays at her aunt's house and falls madly in love with a radio technician. She becomes a popular folk song star, but without hesitation sacrifices her career for the sake of love and marital duties.

Seven months after the declaration of the Greco-Italian War, a volunteer nurse and a small group of confidants who take part in the Resistance, face incarceration and horrible tortures, as they refuse to betray their country.

October 28, 1940. Along with the Italian army's attack on the Greek-Albanian border, Greece comes under fire from the Italian air force. The submarine Papanikolis, commanded by Captain Milto Iatridis and First Officer Vasilis Aslanoglou, is ordered to patrol the Gulf of Patras. Following the army's victories, the war council decides that it is time for the navy to enter the war and orders the submarine Papanikolis to patrol the Strait of Otranto. There, the crew captures the crew of an Italian ship and their engineer reveals the minefields of the Adriatic. Thus, the Papanikolis begins its mission. After completing its mission, it returns to its base, where it is honored.

Martha is locked up in a mental hospital by her own husband, who covets her fortune. At some point, however, with the help of her husband's brother, who studied medicine abroad, she escapes and returns home to see her daughter. This creates friction and coldness between the two brothers, resulting in the doctor who showed her genuine affection packing his bags and leaving Greece.

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A spoiled rich girl falls in love with a poor, good-looking but also talented pianist, rejecting a wealthy suitor from her own class. However, a combination of her parents' pressure and a misunderstanding with her beloved leads her to accept the proposal of a wealthy businessman. At the same time, an accident obliges the young pianist to abandon his piano for quite a long time. And although the young girl stands by him in his time of need, she leaves him the moment he recovers. However, on the night of his first concert, she returns to his side, determined to spend their life together.

A girl from the province, who works in a fashion house in Athens, goes to Kos to promote her clothes. Residents believe that the daughter of a Greek-American tycoon and she plays the role will lead it to embrace the real son of the alleged father.

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Three friends, on a cruise in the Ionian Sea, throw erotic messages in bottles into the sea and fantasize about the women in their lives.

A young man, Jason, is on his way home and meets two beautiful women, Hope and Alexis. He falls for Hope, but has sex with Alexis. He doesn't know that Alexis' husband has hired a private detective to trail her, and the man reports back to Alexis' husband about her affair with Jason. The husband kills Alexis but the police suspect Jason. He and Hope have to clear his name and find enough evidence to prove the husband is the killer.

It is an eventful evening in Anna's luxurious villa, attended by a group of nouveau riche from the northern suburbs of Athens during the years of the dictatorship. The guests are Thanos and his wife Alex, Emmy, George, and Dolly's pregnant friend, while later on, Alexander, Alex's brother, arrives, bringing a pornographic film with him. As the social gathering reaches its peak, the titillating viewing of the porn is interrupted by a crisis involving Dolly, which requires the urgent call of their old friend, Dr. Matzavelakis.

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Stefanos struggles alone to succeed in life, but hides his fears about the uncertain future from the girl he loves, Anna. When he is called up for further training in the army, Anna is seduced by a friend of his, Dimitris, becomes pregnant, and gives her illegitimate daughter up for adoption to a childless couple. Afterwards, realizing her mistake, she chooses to disappear from his life and leaves Greece. Stefanos attributes her departure to his financial situation. A few years later, when Anna returns, she learns of the death of her daughter's adoptive parents and takes her in. She also meets Stefanos, who has since overcome his financial difficulties, and together they realize that the main reason for their separation was their social environment, as well as a temporary and human, but nevertheless fatal, weakness.

A Middle East allied Force commander, Themis, parachutes in occupied Greece to organize a sabotage in the Meteora region but betrays the Germans and falls into ambush. Before retiring, he calls Fotis, a student who had hidden his house, and urges him to go to Athens and meet an Aristides. Despite the mobilization of the Germans who perform all the hostages they have captured, including his father, Fotis finally arrives in Athens, meets with Aristides and accepts to cooperate with him. With the name of Kostas Alexandrou he catches a room in the Papadima family home, falls in love with their daughter Anna and becomes a "friend" with the German Major Karl Asberg. He accepts the co-operation proposed by Carl - to become his agent - to supposedly trap the guerrillas. But he actually misleads the conquerors about blowing a munitions train. His fate is the same as the fate of every patriot who is sacrificed for his homeland.

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During the German occupation, the Nazis plan to execute 30 men in retaliation for the death of a German soldier at the hands of the partisans. Among the men are three brothers (Giorgos Fountas, Anestis Vlachos and Giannis Fertis). The villagers ask the German officer (Zoras Tsapelis) to spare the life of one of the brothers. He accepts on the condition that their father (Lavrentis Dianellos) selects the one to remain alive.

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A summer night in 1944 in Kokkinia, Kosmas, a black marketeer, is out with his friends before he is arrested by the German patrol. The Germans push him to turn in people from the Resistance, or they will execute him.

Life is a unique event and it only happens to us once. There is no turning back. What would I have done or not done, if I could turn back time? Which of my actions or oversights have I regretted? I wonder, did I live well or did I waste the amount of time given to me? Important people, sculpted over time and standing at the threshold of life, talk, freely at last, about the journey of their life and bestow, as a gift, the precious essence of their life. The almost distilled opinions of these people are dramaturgically included in the fictional part of the documentary. Where the journey of life on Earth unfolds through the narrator's voice, while we follow the course of a child alongside a small wooden boat: from the springs of a river to the mouth of the sea, corresponding to Man's voyage from birth to death.

Three students share their dreams for their future after school. Yanna is the moral compass of the film. She wants to work, become financially independent, and then, if she finds the man who speaks to her heart, get married and start a family. Katerina simply wants to get married and take care of her children, and the third member of the group wants to solve her financial problems through a wealthy marriage. She doesn't care about love and romance, she doesn't want children, she wants a life full of "money" even if it means marrying without love. The camera finally focuses on Yanna's life, which seems to be going uphill. Remaining steadfast in her beliefs, she looks for work. When, after a year, she manages to find a job in the offices of a factory, her boss, Mr. Georgiou, makes advances towards her and she seriously injures him.

A housewife putting her husbant's cheese in a mouse trap and a razor blade in her son's food.

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Genteel aristocrats and the terrible impasse erect in front of them their debts, forbidden loves and marriages interests, passions and conflicts.

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