Paninos Damianos

At the turn of the twentieth century a young merchant is abducted by a group of brigands who are sheltered in a remote mountainous area of Greece aiming to extract ransom from his wealthy family. The young man develops a kind of sympathy to the arch-brigand and realizes that the underground life and moral code of his kidnappers actually represent a more genuine expression of “New Hellenism” than his bourgeois well-being.

A social drama covering fifty years of Greece’s recent history, using the statue of the Delphi charioteer as a symbolic image, with the young hero embodied in a modern counterpart.

A middle-aged man living in the countryside is trapped in an elusive business plan, gradually losing touch with people. A festival will give hime a chance to realize that maybe it is not too late to reconnect with reality.