Fonissa
Φόνισσα
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden within her. Like a baton passed on to her from her mother, and the generations before her, she is meant to accept the belittling and degradation of women. Hadoula reacts. Her personal, internal revolution soon comes forth. The victims of her outburst are the little girls of the island, whom she sets free from the social and economic burden that their existence entails by taking their lives. Her actions will bring her face to face with the law. She leaves her home and escapes to her refuge, nature. But as much as her faith and morals dictate that she did the right thing, her trans-generational trauma follows her everywhere. And the end comes as redemption.
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Elena Topalidou
as Amersa
Dimitris Imellos
as Dadis
Christina Maxouri
as Rinio
Ersi Malikenzou
as Lyringos' mother-in-law
Agoritsa Economou
as Moscho
Yannis Tsortekis
Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos
as Rinio's husband
Galini Chatzipaschali
Michalis Ikonomou
as Yannis Perivolaris
Georgianna Dalara
as Hadoula (young)
Olga Damani
as Priest's wife
Maria Skoula
as Perivolaris' wife
Loxandra Lucas
Karyofyllia Karabeti
as Hadoula 'Frangoyannou'
Penelope Tsilika
as Delhcaro (Hadoula's daughter)
Christos Stergioglou
as Priest Nicholas
Stathis Stamoulakatos
as Kambanachmakis
Veronika Davaki
as Lyringos' wife
Mania Papadimitriou
as Hadoula's sister-in-law
Maria Protopappa
as Delcharo (Hadoula's mother)
