The Zero Years

Today till tomorrow and till yesterday. Four women, barren, under surveillance and continuous toxic control, are serving their term in a government-run brothel. Their duty is to have sex and to beat their clients with no remorse. The relations between them are at a critical point, the food and water supply is limited, the house is decaying and fit to drop. Nothing on the outside exists any more. Nightmarish visions, simulated miscarriages and rapes, injections and nausea all make up their daily routine. And yet, even though they have been sterilised by the State, each woman’s dream is to have a child. One day, one of their clients disappears.The interrogation begins...

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Script: Nikos Nikolaidis
Cinematography: Sifis Koundouros
Editing: Yorgos Triandafyllou
Sound: Yannis Haralambidis, Sound Mix: Costas Varimbopiotis
Music: Simon Bloom
Actors: Vicky Harris (visitor), Jenny Kitseli (leader), Arhondisa Mavrakaki (Maro), Eftyhia Yakoumi (Christina), Michele Valley (supervisor), Alkis Panayotidis (inspector)
Production: Marni Film, Greek Film Center
Producers: Nikos Nikolaidis, Marie-Louise Bartholomew
Costumes: Marie-Louise Bartholomew
Sets: Marie-Louise Bartholomew
Make Up: Teresa Nicholson. Color correction: Yannis Tsioulakis
Format: 35mm, Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2005
Duration: 120

Nikos Nikolaidis

Nikos Nikolaidis was born in Athens in 1939. He studied filmmaking and theater set designing. In 1960 he started to work as a first assistant to Vassilis Georgiadis and in 1962 he shot his first short film, Lacrimae Rerum. He made his official debut in 1975 with Euridice BA 2037 at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. He has worked in a recording company and has shot more than 200 commercials in over 20 years. He has published a collection of short stories and three novels, and has written, directed and produced all of his films. He is the only Greek director who has won five times the award for Best Director at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. He died in Athens in September 2007.

Filmography

1962 Lacrimae Rerum (short)
1968 Unconditionally (45’)
1975 Euridice BA 2037
1979 The Wretches Are Still Singing
1983 Sweet Bunch
1987 Morning Patrol
1990 Singapore Sling
1993 The Girl with the Suitcases (TV)
1999 See You in Hell, My Darling
2002 Loser Takes All
2005 The Zero Years

Bibliography
1964 The Gravediggers (short stories)
1977 The Angry Balkan (novel)
1980 The Wretches Are Still Singing (screenplay)
1984 Sweet Bunch (screenplay)
1993 Pigs in the Wind (novel)
2007 A Hit in the Eye of Montezouma

Theater
1996 The Seven Boxes of Pandora by Vassilis Ziogas