After the death of her stepfather, a refugee from Pontos (the Turkish Black Sea Coast), Eleni comes to Athens to find her real father, who disappeared during the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor. O...
Shortly before traveling abroad to study, a poor guy from the countryside (Angelos Antonopoulos) injures his leg, which then becomes paralyzed. He pities himself, abandons his studies and neglects his...
A refugee from Smyrna (Nikos Xanthopoulos) grows up in Athens, works in a taverna and, when the war breaks out, he is sent to the front. During the Occupation, he continues to work in the taverna and ...
In 430 B.C. in Kos, the founding father of medicine, Hippocrates, comes into conflict with the priesthood of the island, is condemned for the novel methods of treatment he is applying - and is forced ...
Thalia, the daughter of a penny-pinching grocer, Pythagoras, is in love with Petros and refuses to marry the stupid Lakis, to whom her father has betrothed her. Lakis is the son of the nouveau-rich Mr...
The Civil War that ravaged the country is now over, and one of the many fugitive fighters of the Left, Nikos Belogiannis, the man with the disarming smile and the carnation, a former captain of ELAS (...