| Director | | Eleni Alexandrakis | 
Filmography
(Selected)
1980 Etriza (short)
1987 The Mylopotamos Hermits (doc.)
1987 Labyrinth (doc.)
1990 The Children of Greece (doc.)
1995 A Drop in the Ocean
2000 Easter is in the Air (doc.)
2004 The Woman Who Missed Home
2008 Angel and the Weightlifter
Biography
She was born in Athens in 1957. She studied Cinema in France and England (Sorbonne Paris I, National Filmand TV School). She has directed many award-winning films, both fiction and documentaries, feature length and short films. A Drop in the Ocean and The Woman Who Missed Home were widely acclaimed in Greece and abroad. For the past twenty years she divides her time between Athens and Nissyros, where she collaborates on various creative projects with the island’s inhabitants. Angel and the Weightlifter is her most recent film.
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Feature Films
Angel and theWeightlifter / Eleni Alexandrakis |  On the island of Nissyros, a contract binds the local keeper of the volcano, nicknamed “The Weightlifter,”to Angel, an Athenian producer who plans to stage a song and dance extravaganza in the volcano’s crater. Little by little, Angel’s presence begins to interfere with the life of the Weightlifter who enjoys an idyllic existence with his beloved Margarita in a little house in the volcano’s valley. During the preparations for the extravaganza, the differences between the twomen escalate, until finally, in the shadow of an old story told on the island, a fatal accident occurs. Through the darkness, a well-hidden secret is brought to light, and its weight is crushing...
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| | Director: | Eleni Alexandrakis | | Script: | Eleni Alexandrakis | | Photographer: | Vassilis Kapsouros | | Montage: | Despina Maroulakou | | Sound: | Marinos Athanassopoulos, Nikos Bougioukos, Vangelis Papadopoulos | | Music: | Nikos Papazoglou | | Sets: | Ioulia Stavridou | | Costumes: | Ioulia Stavridou | | Make up: | Mary Stavrakaki | | With: | Dimitris Bitos (Angel), Sideris Kontoyannis (Weightlifter), Claudia Zarafonitou (Margarita), Lydia Koniordou (Anna), Aspasia Kralli (Katerina), Aglaia Pappa (Dimitra), Yorgis Tsambourakis (Manolis), Michèle Valley (Celine) | | World Sales: | ΕΚΚ/Greek Film Centre, Greece
T. +30 210 3678500 F. +30 210 3648245
info@gfc.gr www.gfc.gr | | Producer: | Eleni Alexandrakis | | Production Country: | Greece | | Co-production: | Νova, Icon Plus, X-Rated, ERT SA Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. With the support of the GFC | | Type: | 35mm Color | | Duration: | 126' | | Production Year: | 2008 | | Screening Schedule | | OLYMPION: | Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 23:00 | | TONIA MARKETAKI: | Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 13:30 | | Return |
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