Melina Stop Frame - In Search of Modern Greekness (2020)
Overview
Through thirteen images and an equal number of stories, little Melina-Amalia, the teenager, the woman, the fighter, Blanche, Stella, Ilya, Phaedra, Medea, Clytemnestra, Minister of Culture, the stoic Melina in Memorial Hospital, all aspects of the "last Greek goddess". Shot on the stage of the National Theater Rex - Marika Kotopouli, it captures, balancing between theater and cinema, important historical events that make the myth that surrounds the glamorous protagonist even more powerful and charming.
Cast
Melina Mercouri
Self (archive footage)
Lena Papaligoura
Youlika Skafida
Ioanna Kolliopoulou
Lena Drosaki
Maria Kitsou
Marina Aslanoglou
Ioanna Pappa
Alexandra Aidini
Anthi Efstratiadou
Stefania Goulioti
Elena Mavridou
Evi Saoulidou
Loukia Michalopoulou
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