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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Veronika Davaki
as Lyringos' wife
Yannis Tsortekis
Mania Papadimitriou
as Hadoula's sister-in-law
Loxandra Lucas
Elena Topalidou
as Amersa
Christos Stergioglou
as Priest Nicholas
Galini Chatzipaschali
Maria Protopappa
as Delcharo (Hadoula's mother)
Georgianna Dalara
as Hadoula (young)
Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos
as Rinio's husband
Maria Skoula
as Perivolaris' wife
Karyofyllia Karabeti
as Hadoula 'Frangoyannou'
Stathis Stamoulakatos
as Kambanachmakis
Dimitris Imellos
as Dadis
Olga Damani
as Priest's wife
Ersi Malikenzou
as Lyringos' mother-in-law
Penelope Tsilika
as Delhcaro (Hadoula's daughter)
Christina Maxouri
as Rinio
Agoritsa Economou
as Moscho
Michalis Ikonomou
as Yannis Perivolaris
