Nassia speaks, sings, cries; all the above in broken Greek, in a language peppered with grammar mistakes that reveal savage truths. Nassia recalls and reminisces how she left her husband in Moldavia, a man who used to drink and hit her and then ask her “why are you trembling? I haven’t begun hitting you yet.” Nassia leaves Moldavia to save herself. When it doesn’t drive you wild, poverty and violence can transform you into an angel. A life’s worth nothing; and nothing’s worth as much as a single life.
The Magic in People: Broken Greek
Tο μαγικό των ανθρώπων: Με σπασμένα ελληνικά
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- Direction: Penny Panayotopoulou
- Script: Penny Panayotopoulou, Kallia Papadaki
- Cinematography: Dimitris Katsaitis
- Editing: Aggelos Aggelopoulos
- Sound: Pavlos Kosmidis
- Producers: Penny Panayotopoulou
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Greece
- Production Year: 2020
- Duration: 43΄
- Contact: Jenny Vafakou, programtv@ert.gr
Penny Panayotopoulou
Filmography
2002 Hard goodbyes my father (fiction)
2013 September (fiction)
2019 The Broken Memory and Poetry’s Sheltering Sky (short)
2020 Broken Greek (short)