A strong, intense and brilliant Greek artmovie family drama and thriller

Great direction, great acting and a great avantgarde sounding soundtrack
this film made a lot of buzz in the 1960's and is today hailed as one of the
best films ever made in Greece. This was the third and last film that the
outsider director Kostas Manoussakis ever made.
Thanks to Mondo Macabro for finding these great lost classics.

Welcome to the Kanalis, probably the most miserable family in Greece.
The Family patriarch, Dimitrios Kanalis (Alexis Damianos) can only
ascertain that ancient family values won't help his family from going to
smithereens.

Warning! Spoilers below!

The film starts with a 7 minute scene without any dialogue. The film takes
place on the Greek countryside where Dimitrios Kanalis owns land
and his family manages the farm, his wife (Mary Hronopoulou), his
son Anestis (Anestis Vlachos) and his adopted deaf-mute daughter
Chrysa (Elli Fotiou). His other daughter Anna (Elena Nathanael) has
left the village and the rural life for studies in Athens.

Anestis a cretinous 30 year something has been forbidden to leave
for Athens with it's evil ways by his very strict father. Anestis is
doomed to stay on the farm forever and he's the shame of his father
and the joke of the village. Why? He's a Peeping Tom who spy on
the peasant women and on couples having sex.
But, virgin Anestis also spies on his poor sister Chrysa, and finally
he rapes and murders her.

To save the family honor his mother and father tries to hide what
has happened and dumps her body in the lake, but Anestis is about
to explode of guilt and fear and Anna suspects what they've done.
The film ends with an unforgettable wedding scene. Goosebumps.

The film is presented in 4:3 fullscreen, black & white, with Greek
audio DTS-HD MA 2.0 with English subtitles.
Extras:
Documentary: Kostas Manoussakis, the Exiled Filmmaker (50 minutes)
Remembering Elena Nathanael, Still poster, Gallery

The great soundtrack by composer Giannis Markopoulos, and the
cinematography by Nikos Gardelis