Hardcore is a "controversial" version of underground Athens as seen through the eyes of two young prostitutes, Nadia and Martha. Both are driven by a desperate need for love and tenderness and develop ways in which to use their profession and friendship to get what they crave. An erotic, passionate and violent psychological portrait of two girls struggling to survive in the face of extraordinary obstacles.

2003/ Drama / Rating:R18 / Director: Dennis Eliades

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Having both left their hostile homes at the tender age of sixteen, Martha and Nadia meet in a lowlife prostitution ring in downtown Athens. Martha has plunged in her new 'profession' with masochistic abandon. Nadia, on the other hand, is not there to stay.
Robbed of their childhoods, they form an erotic relationship devastating in its tenderness, a childish shield to their vicious abuse and degradation. As this degradation escalates, Nadia exploits Martha's total dependence on her and drags her into a series of equally vicious murders that will grant them the "liberation" they so desperately seek.

Cast: Katerina Tsavalou, Danae Skiadi, Omiros Poulakis, Ioannis Papzissis and Dimitris Lignadis

Other credits:

Script: Dennis Iliades (based on the novel by Aleka Laskou)
Cinematography: Thymios Bakatakis
Music: Coti K.
Editing: Giorgos Mavropsaridis
Sets-Costumes: Elly Papageorgakopoulou
Sound Recording: Stefanos Efthymiou
Producer: Dennis Iliades
Production: Odeon S.A., Greek Film Centre, Filmnet, IDEEFIXE

Dennis Iliadis:

Born in Athens, Greece in 1968. Studied Economics and Semiotics/Film at Brown University in the United States and Film Direction at the Royal College of Art in London.
As a screenwriter, he has written the script for George Tsemberopoulos' Back Door (which topped the Greek box office and was in official competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival) and has adapted Michael Rymer's acclaimed film Angel Bay for the theatre.
His screenplay, Sundried Penguins, is currently in development in the U.S with Process Media. He has also directed a large number of acclaimed commercials, which have played internationally, have won 15 major awards and have been screened and shortlisted for the Cannes Lion Awards.

Filmography:

1989 LOVE MOMENTS, fiction, 6', USA
1993 OLE, fiction, 30', London (writer-director)
1997 MORNING FALL, (aka IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME), 10', fiction (writer-director), Greece
2004 HARDCORE, fiction, 100', Greece

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