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Dogtooth (2009) - Christos Passalis & Aggeliki Papoulia Synopsis: The father (Christos Stergioglou), the mother (Michele Valley) and their three kids live at the outskirts of a city. There is a tall fence surrounding the house. The kids have never been outside that fence. They are being educated, entertained, bored and exercised in the manner that their parents deem appropriate, without any influence from the outside world. They believe that the airplanes flying over are toys and that zombies are small yellow flowers. The only person allowed to enter the house is Christina (Anna Kalaitzidou). She works as a security guard at the father’s business. The father arranges her visits to the house in order to appease the sexual urges of the son. The whole family is fond of her, especially the eldest daughter. One day Christina gives her as a present a headband that has stones that glow in the dark and asks for something in return. Biography of Aggeliki Papoulia (Older Daughter): Aggeliki Papoulia graduated from the theatre school of Empros Theatre in 2000. She is a founded member of the "blitz" theatre group (2004) and collaborates in writing commitments within this group, in which she also directs and acts. Papoulia has also taken part in numerous successful films such as Dogtooth, the 5th ever Greek film to be nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language category, and winner of a Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Biography of Giorgos Lanthimos (Director) He was born in Thessaloniki in 1978. He graduated from the State Theatre School of Northern Greece in 2000. He has collaborated in the theatre performances by Y.Paraskevopoulos, N.Milivojevic, M. Marmarinos, Y.Lanthimos. He is a founding member of the theatre company blitz (2004), working as a co-director, actor and writer for the projects of the team. He has played the leading role in the films Black Field by V.Marinakis and Homeland by S. Tzoumerkas. |
