Οι Γενναίοι της Σαμοθράκης
I Yenei tis Samothrakis

Featuring a fine ensemble cast, this tragicomedy is set against real events of 1974. A company of soldiers, branded as outcasts, are shifted from the Greek-Bulgarian border to an even less desirable assignment to quell the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. En route to the battle zone, plans change and the unit instead land in Samothrace.

2003/ Comedy / Rating:R18 / Director: Stamatis Tsarouchas

"An antidote to the usually serious treatment of history in Greek cinema, it is the tragicomic story of outcast soldiers set against the real events of 1974." San Fransisco Greek Film Festival 2004

Cast: 

Renos Haralambidis, Dimitris Piatas, Costas Santas, Tassos Palaitzidis, Rigas Axelos, Nikos Pantelidis

Other credits:

Script: Stamatis Tsarouchas
Cinematography: Spyros Papatriantafillou
Music: Marios Strofalis
Editing: Takis Koumoundouros
Sets-Costumes: Lambrini Kardara
Sound Recording: Marinos Athanassopoulos
Production: Midnight Films, Greek Film Centre, ERT S.A, Strada Productions

Stamatis Tsarouchas

He began his studies at the L. Stavrakos Film School in Athens and then he went on to attend courses as a visiting student at the National Film School in London. From 1979 to 1981 he worked as first assistant director and set designer on several feature films and from 1990 to 1995 directed a number of commercials. In 1991 he won the Best Set Design Award at the 22nd Thessaloniki Film Festival for his work on the film LEARN HOW TO READ AND WRITE, SON. From 1989 TO 1990 he worked as Art Consultant on the feature film JOHNNY KELN, MADAM, a Greek Film Center co-production. He has also written a number of scripts: THE SUN ALWAYS HIDES BEHIND THE CLOUDS (1982), BLIND FIGHT (1991), and THE FLOWER OF THE LAKE (1997). Since 1982 he has also been working in television producing, directing, writing and editing documentaries for ET-1 and ET-2. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors Guild, the Greek Film Centre and the Ministry of Culture Film Advisory Council and has written and lectured extensively on film and television.


Filmography

1980 GREEK ANTIQUITIES, documentary made for the Hellenic Ministry of Culture at the Louvre Museum in Paris
1983 THE BAZAAR, first feature film
1987 GREEK FUR, documentary
1993-94 THE BIRDS WITH THE COLOUR OF THE MOON, feature, Honorary Quality Distinction, Ministry of Culture State Awards
1999 THE FLOWER OF THE LAKE 35mm, colour, 90'
2001 ATHANASSIOS CHRISTOPOULOS, A FORGOTTEN POET, documentary, S16 blow up to 35mm, colour, 61'
2003 THE VALIANTS OF SAMOTHRACE, feature, 35mm, colour, 85'