Anna’s Engagement (1974) To proxenio tis Annas
Anna’s Engagement (1974)
DVDRip | MKV | 720 x 540 | x264 @ 2109 Kbps | 80 min | 1,33 Gb
Audio: Greek AAC 2.0 @ 157 Kbps | Subs: English, German, French, Greek
Genre: Art-house, Drama
DVDRip | MKV | 720 x 540 | x264 @ 2109 Kbps | 80 min | 1,33 Gb
Audio: Greek AAC 2.0 @ 157 Kbps | Subs: English, German, French, Greek
Genre: Art-house, Drama
The Greek Anna’s Engagement (To Proxenio tis Annas) top-bills Anna Vaguena in the title role. The maid to a wealthy family, Vaguena finds herself the object of an arranged marriage, thanks to the machinations of the family's well-meaning daughter Ketty Panou. The twist here is that Vaguena hits it off with her predestined spouse Stavros Kalarogiou, but it's her employees who have second thoughts. They are motivated less by the supposed "unsuitability" of Kalarogiou as they are by their need for Vaguena's services as a maid.
IMDB - 8 wins
"To proxenio tis Annas" is the first great film of the director Pantelis Voulgaris. Anna, a young woman comes to a Greek house in Athens to work as a servant. The family loves her and they try to find her a man in order to get married. When the man is finally found, they change their mind and this is when relations start to break up. Voulgaris depicts in a great way the way Athenians used to live, people gathering on Sundays and/or Holidays at big momma's house, playing backgammon, little ambitious girls wanting to become models, the ethical way of family, Anna has to find a man and make a good, descent, Christian family etc. Voulgaris as he had once said was inspired by an incident that has happened in his family when he was young. There is also a kind of political implication, Anna's father was executed at Kalavryta by the Germans. But most of it, the film shows how 2 families are attached to and depend on a girl, the victim in the whole case, and how difficult it is finally for her to make her life the way she wants it to be when she finally compromises with it. Anna Vagena and the rest of the cast (along with a must-seen Costas Rigopoulos) are great !
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Anna’s Engagement (1974) To proxenio tis Annas
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