Liza and All The Others

Η Λίζα και Όλοι οι Άλλοι
I Liza kai Oloi oi Alloi

“Seeking young, handsome and normal guy, for over two months…”

Set in contemporary Athens, the film provides an insight to the lifestyle of “beautiful people” and focuses on Liza, a young, attractive freelance journalist and her quest for the ideal male; an attractive devoted male, that loves her and who would be the perfect man to introduce to her friends and work colleagues as her lover and partner. Frustrated by the fact that she continuously meets the ‘wrong man’, she reflects and endeavours to explain the behaviour of the opposite sex. In order to deal with her insecurities, Lisa perpetually preoccupies herself with her image and appearance.
   Her relationship with Gianni has a distinct lack of intimacy and her submissiveness gives rise to contrasting emotions. Drawing on her previous experiences with men, Liza attempts to illustrate the frustrations and dilemmas she confronts in her search for the perfect partner. These encounters also act as a reference guide for an article she has been assigned to write. Then one evening she meets Paris, an irresistible male with a soft and seductive nature. Absorbed by Paris’s alluring charisma, Liza asks herself whether she has finally found the ideal male. Her personal recollections and tribulations are a satirical and comical description of the difficulties and fears of the modern day Athenian woman.


Director: Nikos Perakis | Rating: R 18+ | 2003 | Comedy/Romance | 104 minutes | Greek dialogue with English subtitles

Director's Bio - Nikos Perakis

Nikos Perakis was born in 1944 in Alexandria Egypt. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy of Munich and worked as a set and costume designer on several German film productions including LINA BRAAKE, BERLINGER, TAUGENICHTS, FELIX KRULL by Brustellin and Sinkel, FRANZ BLUM, MANN AUF DER MAUER by Reinhardt Hauff and STROHFEUER, TIN DRUM by Volker Schloendorff. In 1971 he started writing and directing films in Germany. After “Milo Milo”, which was shot in Greece, he decided to settle permanently in Greece.

PRINCIPAL CAST

Katerina Moutsatsou (Liza)
Doretta Papadimitriou (Clary)
Alexandros Parthenis (Paris)
Giorgos Karamichos (Yannis)
Katia Nikolaidou (Ianna)
Giorgos Chraniotis (Vangelis)
Dorothea Mercouri (Angela)
Elissavet Konstantinidou (fortune teller)
Spyros Kalogyrou (elderly neighbour)
Evangelia Samiotaki (elderly neighbour’s wife)
 

DIRECTOR's – PREVIOUS FILMS

1971 Das Goldene Ding

1972 Die Wohngenossin

1976 Bomber und Paganini

1978 Milo Milo

1982 Arpa Colla

1984 Loafing and Camouflage

1987 Living Dangerously

1995 Polis

1997 Paterfamilias

1999 Female Company

2002 Bubble

2003 Liza and the Others

 

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

44th Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2003


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