Fonissa (2023)
Overview
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden within her. Like a baton passed on to her from her mother, and the generations before her, she is meant to accept the belittling and degradation of women. Hadoula reacts. Her personal, internal revolution soon comes forth. The victims of her outburst are the little girls of the island, whom she sets free from the social and economic burden that their existence entails by taking their lives. Her actions will bring her face to face with the law. She leaves her home and escapes to her refuge, nature. But as much as her faith and morals dictate that she did the right thing, her trans-generational trauma follows her everywhere. And the end comes as redemption.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $1,414,156.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | el |
| Popularity | 0.4101 |
Directed By
Eva Nathena
Crew
Eva Nathena
Katerina Bei
Eva Nathena
Panagiotis Vasilakis
Aggela Despotidou
Eva Nathena
Eva Nathena
Costas Varibopiotis
Marinos Athanassopoulos
Evi Zafiropoulou
Hronis Tzimos
Sotiria Marini
Akis Gourzoulidis
Dionysis Samiotis
Costas Lambropoulos
Nikos Gatsos
Alexandros Papadiamantis
TOP CAST
Karyofyllia Karabeti
Hadoula 'Frangoyannou'
Maria Protopappa
Delcharo (Hadoula's mother)
Elena Topalidou
Amersa
Penelope Tsilika
Delhcaro (Hadoula's daughter)
Georgianna Dalara
Hadoula (young)
Christos Stergioglou
Priest Nicholas
Stathis Stamoulakatos
Kambanachmakis
Dimitris Imellos
Dadis
Christina Maxouri
Rinio
Olga Damani
Priest's wife
Ersi Malikenzou
Lyringos' mother-in-law
Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos
Rinio's husband
Agoritsa Economou
Moscho
Michalis Ikonomou
Yannis Perivolaris
Veronika Davaki
Lyringos' wife
Niki Papandreou
Krinio
Maria Skoula
Perivolaris' wife
Mania Papadimitriou
Hadoula's sister-in-law
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