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Eva Nathena & Dionyssis Samiotis On Crafting Their Surprising Greek Box Office Hit ‘Murderess’ – Contenders International
‘Murderess’ director/costume designer Eva Nathena and producer Dionyssis Samiotis discuss their film, Greece's entry for the Best International Feature Oscar.
After two decades as a leading costume and set designer in Greece, artist Eva Nathena has stepped behind the camera to direct her first feature with Murderess. Based on Alexandros Papadiamantis’ popular novel The Murderess — a seminal piece of literature in Greece — the film is set in 1900s Greek society in which Hadoula (Karyofyllia Karabeti), an older woman trapped in her own mother’s rejection, struggles to survive the dictates of a patriarchal society. “We had a firm belief that the movie would talk to the hearts of everyone,” Samiotis said of the film’s box office success.
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