Feature film
Anna's Engagement
Το προξενιό της Άννας
Pantelis Voulgaris · 1972
Synopsis
Anna, who came from her village, has been serving a petit-bourgeois family in Athens for ten years. Her employers, judging that she is of an age to marry, intend Kosmás for her, a man from her home region, and invite him to the house one Sunday. In the evening, they let her go out alone with him. On her return, a mere delay is enough to show what kind of authority they mean to hold over her.
Context
Voulgaris first took his project to Fínos, who asked for changes to make it more commercial; he refused, and Dínos Katsourídis produced the film. The screenplay is co-written with Ménis Koumandaréas, and the role of the proprietress, which the director intended for Katína Paxinoú, went to Smaró Veáki. Released on 26 September 1972, the film drew 114,071 admissions, eighteenth of the sixty-four Greek films of the season.
Who it is for
A subtitled film in Greek. It is best to know what a psychokóri was: a poor girl taken in by a family and employed without wages.
Prizes and reception
Five prizes at Thessaloniki in 1972, including best film, and three at the Berlin Forum in 1973; it is regarded, with Damianos's Evdokia, as the beginning of the new Greek cinema.
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