Donousa

Director: Angeliki Antoniou
Cast: Andre Hennicke, Christina Papamichou, Gerassimos Skiadaressis, Eva Kotamanidou
Germany, Switzerland, Greece, 1992, 84', DCP, color
Greek with Turkish, English subtitles

Once a week a ship arrives in the small, remote Aegean Island of Donousa. One winter’s day Stefan, a young German photographer comes to the island and his arrival triggers off a series of events that will bring to light the deepest secrets of a world that is hermetically shut off, trapped in a vicious whirlwind where the same sin, the same mistake, the same blood, the same silences are reproduced. The story unfolds smoothly and reaches a climax without violent flare-ups as if following the pace of life in this forgotten land. A strange, claustrophobic atmosphere for a modern tragedy that has left nothing out of the traditional arsenal: from the chorus and the deus ex machina to the final catharsis.