Hostage

Film Info

Greece, Turkey 2005 | 105 min. Director: Konstantine Giannaris

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Hostage

Synopsis

One morning, a young man boards an intercity bus on ist daily route to Thessaloniki in Northern Greece. He hijacks the bus at gunpoint and takes seven of the passengers hostage. In his left hand he holds a grenade. He turns out to be a 25-years old Albanian immigrant by the name of Helion-Senior. His control demands include a ranson of half-a-million euros and safe passage back to his homeland. The hijacking is transmitted live, on national television. For the next 20 hours a mild and at times breakly comic case ensues through Northern Greece.

Cast & Crew

Director

Konstantine Giannaris
Producer

George Lykiardopoulos, Konstantine Giannaris, Baran Seyhan, Jale Onanç
Screenwriter

Konstantine Giannaris
Director of photography

Panagiotis Theofanopoulos
Main Cast

Stathis Papadopoulos (Elion, hostage-taker), Theodora Tzimou (Iliana, young mother, passenger), Yannis Stankoglou (Grigoris, passenger, victim), Minas Hatzisavvas (Angeliki, passenger)
Actor

Stathis Papadopoulos, Theodora Tzimou, Yannis Stankoglou, Minas Hatzisavvas
Editor (Cut)

Ioanna Spiliopoulou
Sound Design

Antonis Samaras
Original Score

Nikos Patrelakis
Production Design

Maria Konomi
Makeup

Evi Zafiropoulou

Biography

Born in Athens, Greece, in 1959, he moved to England in 1976 and graduated from the University of Keele (joint honours in History/Economics). He did his post-graduate studies at the University of Birmingham (Greek-Russian post-war relations).

Filmography:
2005 HOSTAGE
2001 ONE DAY IN AUGUST
1998 FROM THE EDGE OF THE CITY
1995 3 STEPS TO HEAVEN
1995 A PLACE IN THE SUN
1991 OUT OF TUESDAY, short
1991 CAUGHT LOOKING, short
1989 TROJANS, short
1989 JEAN GENET IS DEAD, short