Evdokia

1971
1h 37m

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7.0/10

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Drama Romance

Athens, 1971. In the tumultuous years of the Greek military junta, an unconventional couple is torn between the complexities of love, life, and the suffocating pressure of fragile societal r... Read allAthens, 1971. In the tumultuous years of the Greek military junta, an unconventional couple is torn between the complexities of love, life, and the suffocating pressure of fragile societal relations. Will they survive one another?Athens, 1971. In the tumultuous years of the Greek military junta, an unconventional couple is torn between the complexities of love, life, and the suffocating pressure of fragile societal relations. Will they survive one another?

Director
- Alexis Damianos
Writers
- John Baldwin
- Alexis Damianos
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- 1 win

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Koula Agagiotou and Maria Vassiliou in Evdokia (1971)

Giorgos Koutouzis and Maria Vassiliou in Evdokia (1971)

Giorgos Koutouzis and Hristos Zorbas in Evdokia (1971)

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Trivia
The protagonist, Maria Vassiliou, was an actress from Cyprus residing in London. She returned to Greece specifically for the shooting of the film, but because of her poor Greek, the voice of singer/actress Eleni Roda was used as a voice-over. Unfortunately, Maria Vassiliou died of cancer in 1989, at the age of 39. She was 20 years old when the film was made.

Quotes
Sgt. Baskos: I promised to my Captain, that I'll be back before 4 o'clock. I'm late...
Evdokia: Hey! Is this how you're gonna leave?
Sgt. Baskos: Say, spare a dime for the bus? I'm late...
Evdokia: I'm broke and I still owe to the grocery store, the instalments for the electricity and the refrigerator...
Sgt. Baskos: 'right, no worries.
Fellow soldiers: [Teasing him] Hey, George Baskos, you got married?
Sgt. Baskos: Yes, I did.
Fellow soldiers: [Teasing him some more] And whom did you get?
Sgt. Baskos: A girl from my village, you pricks!
Evdokia: [Throwing her wedding ring] You aren't worth a dime!

Connections
Featured in Mousiki vradya: Ta zeibekika tou Mitsaki (1976)

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9/10

One of the most undervalued movies

Many people who seem not to like originality and non-happy endings, are trashing this movie whilst others (amongst them myself) consider it one of the most important movie of the Greek cinematography. The movie is very very low budget but this doesn't take away from the wonderful social critic, the very original direction and the amazing performances of most actors. When coupled with the beautiful music of Manos Loizos, it makes a movie really worth watching. The story as well as the character development is very well presented.

It is also worth mentioning that the two main protagonists are amateurs. George, was a construction worker that was found by the director working in a construction yard, while Evdokia (Maria Vassiliou) was found by the director's wife while browsing through a family photo album. The girl was born in England by Greek parents and at that time didn't speak Greek. Thus the need to dub the movie.

Another interesting fact was that the main theme of the movie was supposed to have lyrics. But when Lefteris Papadopoulos (the lyrics writer) listened to the music he said that such music doesn't need lyrics because it speaks by itself.

I really do recommend this movie.

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