Akamas

Story

Synopsis

Omeris, a Turkish Cypriot boy, grows up with Greek-Cypriots in the innocent years of his homeland. He has been taught that human beings have no differences between them, whether they call themselves Greek or Turk, Muslim or Christian. When he falls in love with a Greek-Cypriot girl, he realizes that the world is not as he imagined it to be.The game of love has many surprises in store for him. Destiny ordains that he fight so that he can stay with his beloved, at a moment when the people around him are moving in exactly the opposite direction, towards separation and partition. If he doesn't want to be defeated he must fight the absurdity of fanaticism that is invading his personal life and is trying to crush it.

Director

Panikkos Hrysanthou

Language

Greek, Modern

Country

Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Turkey

Release date

23 November 2006

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Christopher Greco

  Omeris

• 

  Alkis Kritikos

  Nikolis

• 

  Koullis Nikolaou

  Kagias

• Michalis Terlikkas

• Thodoris Michailides

  Naimis

• Lucy Christofi Christy

• 

  Agni Scott

  Rodou