Vasiliki (film)
| Vasiliki | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Vangelis Serdaris |
| Written by | Vangelis Serdaris |
| Starring |
Paschalis Tsarouhas Tamila Koulieva Vasilis Papanikas Vivian Kontomari |
| Music by | Giorgos Tsangaris |
| Cinematography | Aggelos Viskadourakis |
| Edited by | Kostas Raftopoulos |
Release dates |
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Running time | 135 minutes |
| Country | Greece |
| Language | Greek |
Vasiliki (Greek: Βασιλική) is a Greek film directed by Vangelis Serdaris. It released in 1997 and star Paschalis Tsarouhas and Tamila Koulieva. The film received the Greek Film Critics Association Awards. Also, Paschalis Tsarouhas won the award for best actor in the Cairo International Film Festival and Giorgos Tsangaris won the award for best music in Greek State Film Awards.
Plot
The film presents the riotous years immediately after the Greek Civil War. Vasiliki is the wife of a Greek communist guerrilla during Greek Civil War. The local gendarmerie arrests her because brought food to her husband. The chief of gendarmerie charmed by her beauty rapes her. Then, he moved in other city but returned to ask her to follow him (meanwhile her husband had killed in the war). His love for the wife of a communist is the cause to be expelled by the gendarmerie. Thus he moves in the North Greece doing plans for his professional future. After the sudden death of his partner his plans fails. He seeks help from a rich industrialist but the industrialist exploits his ideas for himself. The impediments that he meets make him more and more violent resulting to miss her wife and eventually to reach the crime killing the industrialist.[1]
Cast
- Paschalis Tsarouhas as Leonidas Loufakos
- Tamila Koulieva as Vasiliki
- Vasilis Papanikas as Giagos Hrysomoglou
- Vivian Kontomari as Smaragda
- Haris Gregoropoulos
- Nikos Katis
- Michalis Iatropoulos
Awards
| Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 Cairo International Film Festival | Best Actor | Paschalis Tsarouhas | Won |
| 1998 Mar del Plata International Film Festival | Best Actor | Paschalis Tsarouhas | Won |
| 1997 Greek State Film Awards | Best Music | Giorgos Tsangaris | Won |
| Greek Film Critics Association Awards | Best Film | Vangelis Serdaris | Won |
References
- ↑ "Vasiliki". tainiothiki.gr. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ↑ "award 1997". Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ↑ "Vasiliki - Awards". imdb. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
External links
- Vasiliki at the Internet Movie Database