Movie
ROAD TO ITHACA (THE)
February 1975. We are in Northern Cyprus. A Turkish Cypriot, Yasmin Orek, hopes to find her true love again, the Greek Cypriot Tilemachos Chatzikostas who was captured by the Turks during the invasion, after which his family moved to London, and Turkish Cypriot refugees from the south of the island settled in his house. Yasmin and Tilemachos had grown up together, and their love had blossomed despite the community conflicts which were provoked on both sides. A few months prior to the coup d’état of July 1974, they were forced to meet secretly, since things were very dangerous due to the resurgence of EOKA (National Organization of Cypriot Fighters) activities. At the same time, one of Yasmin’s childhood friends, Eleni, met with a Greek photographer, Michalis Dimitriou, who, after the Turkish invasion, mysteriously disappeared, leaving her pregnant as well. Yasmin hasn’t stopped looking for Tilemachos, and for that reason associates with a Turkish general, Kemal Achmet, believing that he might help her. Instead, however, she finds out that Michalis Dimitriou is not a Greek photographer at all but a major in the Turkish Secret Services. The last act of the drama unfolds a year later in London, where Yasmin again meets Eleni - who is raising her baby - as well as Tilemachos’ sister, Despoina. They don’t know how to announce to her that her beloved is no longer missing but dead.
- Production Year 1999
- Color COLOR
- Audio SOUND
- Genre FEATURE FILM, HISTORICAL, SOCIAL DRAMA, ROMANCE, DRAMATIC
- Director DIMITRIOU KOSTAS
- Production UNDERGROUND FILMS & TV PRODUCTIONS, GREEK FILM CENTER (GFC), CINEMA ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF CYPRUS, EURIMAGES COUNCIL OF EUROPE, SIGMA TV , AUDIO VISION SERVICES, SKLAVIS STUDIO, MOVIE MAKERS, EVKO VISION ORPHEUS
- Producers DIMITRIOU KOSTAS, SERNTARIS VANGELIS, KRASTEV MARIO
- Script Writer FLORIDIS ADONIS, DIMITRIOU KOSTAS, NIKOLAIDIS THEODOROS, RUMBOLD JONATHAN
- Director of Cinematography LAZAROV NIKOLAY
- Sound Engineer SIMEONOV ALEKSANDAR
- Set Designer ATHIAINITIS STEFANOS
- Costume Designers GENETHLIS LAKIS, ESKIDJIAN SOSSE
- RAIF BERNA
- RUFFELLE FRANCES
- CONRAN ALEXIS
- DIMITRIOU TONI
- O'MARA KATE
- SAVVA MARIA
- KONSTANTI VAS
- GRECO CHRISTOPHER
- KATSARIS ANTONIS
- FORGEHAM JOHN
- MICHAIL MICHAIL
- STYLIS ANTONIS
- NIKOLAOU KOULIS
- ARODITIS STAVROS
- MILTIADIS SPYROS
- GRIGORIADIS CHRISTOS
- KOUTROUPIS ANTONIS
- POULATZIS PETROS
- KAOULA ELENI
- ROUSOUNIS TZIMY
- GRIGORIADI GKIZELA
- NEOKLEOUS NEOKLIS
- McCOWAN DUNCAN
- NEOFYTOU NEOFYTOS
- ALEXANDROU NATASA
- MOUSOULIOTIS ANDREAS
- CHATZIDIMITRIOU MARILENA
- KOUNTOURI ANTREA
- PETSA MARIA
- CHATZOULI AGATHI
- MALEKOU VIVIANNA
- CHARALAMPOUS STELIOS
- DIMITRIOU KOSTAS
- CHRISTOFI LOUSY
- ALETRA MARIA
- ALETRA MARIA
- KARAGIANNI CHRISTIAN
- PAFYTI MARIANNA
- KONSTANTINOU SAVVAS
- KEPERIS ANDREAS
- KEPERI NITSA
- KONSTANTIS GIORGOS
- EFSTATHIOU AVGOUSTA
- MAVROMICHA KRYSTALLIA
- ALAMPRITIS PRODROMOS
- GEORGIOU MAVROUDIS
- MICHAIL SOTIRIS
- DIMITRIOU ANDREAS
- RODOSTHENOUS MARINA
- NOTIS ARIS
- THEODOROU GIANNIS
- PANAGIOTOU ELENI
- GLEIN RENE
- EFTHYMIOU KYRIAKOS
- TSAROU GIORGOS
- DIMITRIOU ANTONIS
- PONTIKIS NIKOS
- ANASTASIOU ANDREAS
- KOUKIDIS ANDREAS
- TSAKKOS RENOS
- DIMITRIOU NIKOS
- KONTOPYRGOS GIORGOS
- VAKANAS CHRISTODOULOS
- PITZIOUS LEONIDAS
- Foreign Title ROAD TO ITHACA (THE)
