Melina Stop Frame - In Search of Modern Greekness (2020)

0.0/10 50 min Documentary

Overview

Through thirteen images and an equal number of stories, little Melina-Amalia, the teenager, the woman, the fighter, Blanche, Stella, Ilya, Phaedra, Medea, Clytemnestra, Minister of Culture, the stoic Melina in Memorial Hospital, all aspects of the "last Greek goddess". Shot on the stage of the National Theater Rex - Marika Kotopouli, it captures, balancing between theater and cinema, important historical events that make the myth that surrounds the glamorous protagonist even more powerful and charming.

Cast

Melina Mercouri

Self (archive footage)

Lena Papaligoura

Youlika Skafida

Ioanna Kolliopoulou

Lena Drosaki

Maria Kitsou

Marina Aslanoglou

Ioanna Pappa

Alexandra Aidini

Anthi Efstratiadou

Stefania Goulioti

Elena Mavridou

Evi Saoulidou

Loukia Michalopoulou

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