THE MAN IN GRAY

O κύριος με τα γκρι

After thirty years of loyal service to the Water Company, Mr. Leonidas Chryssis retires. As he does every summer, he will go to the Platystomo Spa, alone, without his family. There he will fall in love with a woman, Christina, and she with him. A deep instinct for life pushes them towards a passion like those of their youth. Christina lives in Switzerland; she must leave; they will part. Despite his remorse, his wife, his daughter, his son most of all, he flies to Switzerland to find Christina. Her life in the foreign country looms before him like a wall. Leonidas realizes that Bern is too far away; he will return to his family...

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Direction: Pericles Hoursoglou

Script: Pericles Hoursoglou (in collaboration with Dimitris Kechaidis and Jan Fleischer)

Cinematography: Stamatis Yannoulis

Editing: Takis Yannopoulos

Sound: Marinos Athanassopoulos

Music: Nicola Piovani

Actors: Yorgos Michalakopoulos, Irini Inglessi, Rania Economidou, Maria Kechagioglou, Themis Himaras

Production: Greek Film Centre, Mythos, FAMA Film (Switzerland), Lumiere (Cyprus), EPT A.E. / Greek Public Television, Attica S.A., LTV

Producers: Dionissis Samiotis, Anastassios Vassiliou

Costumes: Anastassia Arseni

Sets: Anastassia Arseni

Format: 35mm

Color: Colour

Production Year: 1997

Duration: 98΄

Contact: Greek Film Centre, 10

Pericles Hoursoglou

Born in Athens, in 1955. He studied mathematics at Athens University and film at the Stavrakos Film School from 1975 to 1978. He began working as assistant director in 1976 with many noted Greek filmmakers. In 1990 he worked as art director in Pantelis Voulgaris' film Quiet days in August. From 1982 to the present he has directed documentaries for Greek Public Television.