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PURGATORY

KATHARTIRIO

By Vassilis MAZOMENOS

Drama - Completed 2022

Seven different stories in modern Greece. Stories where their heroes try to purify themselves through love.

Thessaloniki IFF 2022

Official Selection

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama, Black comedy, Social issues
- Countries
- GREECE
- Languages
- GREEK
- Duration
- 95 mn
- Director(s)
- Vassilis MAZOMENOS
- Writer(s)
- Vassilis MAZOMENOS, Vassilis GOUDELIS
- Cast
- Maria ZORBA, Yannis KOKIASMENOS, Andreas NATSIOS, Angeliki KARISTINOU, Kostas BARAS, Thodoris KATSAFADOS, Nefeli KOURI
- Producer(s)
- Vassilis MAZOMENOS (Horme pictures), Panos PAPADOPOULOS (Prosenghisi)
- Synopsis
- A monk leads a procession in an attempt to open a temple, which the authorities have closed due to a pandemic. A young girl, a victim of abandonment and exploitation, is rescued from prostitution when her long-lost father reappears. Two college boys, scions of wealthy families, become perpetrators of violent incidents, unjustifiably injuring a woman. An elderly man suffering from dementia is exploited by a policewoman who convinces him that he is her father. A couple tries to recover their broken relationship ending in loneliness. A woman expresses her anger to a civil servant after losing her husband because of his indifference. A middle-class man sneaks his best friend, who is suffering from cancer, out of the hospital to give him a beautiful end by the sea.