Venizelos: The Struggle for Asia Minor (Venizelos: Agonas gia ti Mikra Asia)

Kapetan Mihalis (O Kapetan Mihalis)
August 14, 2024
Wings
August 16, 2024
Kapetan Mihalis (O Kapetan Mihalis)
August 14, 2024
Wings
August 16, 2024

Venizelos: The Struggle for Asia Minor (Venizelos: Agonas gia ti Mikra Asia)

Documentary / 85’ / 2022

 

Synopsis: This docudrama follows one of modern Greece’s greatest politicians as he faces formidable challenges during the critical decade from the Balkan Wars and World War I up to the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. Eleftherios Venizelos’s struggle is told through dramatized scenes, rare archive material, and interviews with experts.

 

Nikos Dagiadas

Nikos has directed some of Greece’s most acclaimed international documentary co-productions for National Geographic, ARTE, ZDF, AVRO, ERT, History TV et.al. He has also co-directed the docu-series 1821 and The Journey of Food, and was associate producer and script consultant for award-winning doc A Family Affair. He is a permanent collaborator of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Nikos’ recent work includes the 13-part docu-series The Art Code, Buried Secrets of Keros and the feature-length docufiction film Venizelos: The Struggle for Asia Minor.

Filmography

2005 Knossos, the Labyrinth of Myths
2009 Sayomi
2013 Little Land
2018 The Art Code
2020 Keros, the Mystery of the Broken Idols
2022 Venizelos: The Struggle for Asia Minor

 

 

CAST & CREW

Cast Giorgos Dambasis, Alexandros Logothetis (narration)

Directed by Nikos Dagiadas

Written by Apostolos Karakasis, Nikos Papadakis-Papadis

Cinematography Stelios Apostolopoulos

Editing Yorgos Paterakis

Sound Spyros Tsitsis

Set Design Constantinos Papageorgiou

Costume Design Constantinos Papageorgiou

Production Company Long Run Productions

Produced by Leonidas Liambeys

Co-production Companies National Research Foundation Eleftherios K. Venizelos, ERT SA, EKOME SA