When the Greeks (1981) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1981 · 98 mins · Greek

Directed by

Lakis Papastathis

Starring

Yvonne Maltezou, Smaragda Smyrnaiou, Giorgos Kotanidis, Alexis Damianos, Nena Menti, Stavros Mermigis

Set at the turn of the twentieth century, a young Greek merchant is seized by brigands in a remote mountain area, who plan to ransom him from his wealthy family. Among them he grows sympathetic toward the brigand and begins to see their lifestyle and moral code as a truer expression of ‘New Hellenism’ than the comforts of his bourgeois upbringing.