2009 Maria

2009 MARIA, 35mm, 27’





Completed
Shorts

Color: Color
Format: 35mm
Running time: 27'
Sound: Dolby Digital
Director
Thanassis Sarantos

Script
Thanassis Sarantos

Cinematography
Angelos Viskadourakis

Music
Yannis Tsampanakis
Editing
Takis Koumoundouros

Sets-Costumes
Spyros Laskaris

Sound Recording
Nikos Papadimitriou

With the participation of
Greek Film Center

Cast
Maria Panourgia
Nikos Lambrou
Michalis Theofanous
Dimitra Stoyanni

Producer
Thanassis Sarantos

Production
ITHIKON ACMEOTATOΝ
ERT S.A
Thanassis Sarantos
FILM SUMMARY
The film tells the story of a young shepherdess, Maria, and is set in the autumn of 1522 on Tilos, a small and far-flung isle in the southern Aegean plagued by Saracen raids. When Maria saves the only survivor of a pirate shipwreck and hides him—Ali, a young man—from her elderly husband and the other shepherds, she finds herself drawn into an impossible and dangerous relationship.

AWARDS
Best Cinematography, 2009
Cyprus International Film Festival,
Official Participation, 2010
Larissa Mediterranean Festival,
Official Participation, 2010
Romanian International Film Festival (Ro-IFF),
Official Participation, 2011
Tetouan International Mediterranean Film Festival