Sofocles Peppas

Greek television series

A series of events leads a group of young people, spending their summer on an Aegean island, to make life-changing decisions.

Loxandra is a Greek mother and wife living the ordinary life of a well to-do Greek family in Constantinoupolis of the late 1800s-early 1900s, a world gone forever. Historical events intrude in the background -revolutions, palace coups, massacres, and the great upheavals of WW1 in which Greeks saw their wildest hopes fulfilled, then dashed: for a brief time Constantinoupolis itself was regained, then lost along with all Asia Minor. Through troubles great and small, Loxandra's simple optimism, belief in her Virgin Mary, and love of life carries her family past every difficulty - be it a sumptuous dinner for Easter or secretly giving away her savings to help persecuted Armenians. A representation of a time and place where all neighbors were friends, where they could cook in each other's kitchens or take shelter in each other's cellars.

Two sisters, each for their own reasons must separate from their partner. They live in the same apartment building, together with their children. Slowly but surely they lay the foundations for their new life. Through the love that unites them, the female solidarity, their own perspective on things, they face the problems of everyday life. What's more, they discover little by little how strong they are and their true selves.

A free adaptation of the story of Oedipus. Antigone accompanies her father on a journey outside the borders of Greece. There she finds work with a group of wandering artists. Antigone tells the audience, with a magic lantern, the story of Oedipus. Ismene comes to Greece and begs Antigone to return, because Eteocles and Polynices are at odds. Antigone returns and finds her brothers killed. The wandering artists bring Oedipus back to Greece

The mute wife (Olia Lazaridou) of a shadow-theater player (Antonis Kafetzopoulos) is suffering from cancer. An old woman, guided by her visions, discovers a Byzantine religious icon buried in a field. Her nephew sells the find to a thief, who then murders the old woman, without knowing that she had told the village priest about the holy icon she found. Two priests arrive in the village together with the puppeteer and his ailing wife, and there the wife sees a vision of the icon and where it was located in the field, which leads to the discovery of the bones of a saint. The wife sleeps on the spot where the holy relics were discovered and, upon awaking the following morning, regains her speech.

A 50 year old journalist, son of a civil war hero, who died fighting for the right forces is shattered, when he recognizes him in a documentary, fighting for the communists. He starts searching for the truth, despite his family's objections, who fear that they will lose privileges if the status of the dead changes after the search.