Toula Stathopoulou

This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is also taken care by Alexis' family. The refugees build a small village somewhere near a river and we watch as the kids grow up and fall in love. But difficult times of dictatorship and war are coming... (imdb)

Based on a real story the film reconstructs a crime in a remote village of Northern Greece. (bfi.org.uk)

It is 1936 in Greece, shortly before the Metaxas' dictatorship. A former drug trafficker and police informer, Sofianos, is in prison because of the assassination of a trade unionist during a rally. A conservative politician, Kriezis, with whom Sofianos had a homosexual relationship, visits him in prison. Using a smuggled gun Sofianos manages to take him hostage in his cell and blackmails the police in order to be released... (imdb)

Not about Alexander the Great(356-323 BC), but a mysterious rebellion in the beginning of the 20th century in Greece... (IMDB Comments)

The wife of an alcoholic and mother of four is a factory worker in Corfu at the beginning of the 20th century. A fallen noble man wants to marry her eldest daughter and take advantage of the family's meager earnings. He kidnaps the willing girl, and argues with her mother about the dowry. But the girl refuses to marry him when she wakes up to the fact that he is only looking out for his own interests. She then decides to start working in order to earn money to raise the child she is expecting. (imdb)

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