Serenity

Jun 25, 1961

1h 10m

★ 6.5

Overview

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.

Genres

History

Drama

Production Companies

Serenity Pictures

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Cast

Eirini Veni

Norma Valdi

Dr. Dimitris Venis

Kostas Baladimas

Anna Venni

Vivian Verrilli

Eleni Glaros

Nina Bobbie

Aunt Sophia

Athena Michaelidou

Andreas, Aunt Sophia's Son

Dimitri Maras

A Water Diviner

Andreas Pandopoulos

Zambeta

Lili Yannikaki

Widow

Margarita Goumas

Old Stathis

Thanas Veloudios

Mechanic

Byron Pallis

Haritos

Takis Kavouras

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