A boundless stage of the square, Agia Ekaterini in Heraklion – Started the shooting of Yannis Smaragdis for Nikos Kazantzakis [photos+video]

In a vast setting turns the historic square of St. Catherine at…
Heraklion on the occasion of the shooting of the new film by Yannis Smaragdis “Nikos Kazantzakis”.
People of the production with the director Yannis Smaragdis are from the morning in the square of St. Catherine, and prepare the space in order to continue the shooting started yesterday.

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The film is expected to be released in cinemas in 2017, a year that has been declared by the Minister of Culture, mr. Cleaver as the Year of Nikos Kazantzakis, celebrating 60 years since his death.
The role of the elder Author is an accomplished actress, star of theatre and film, Stephen Ληναίος.
The young Kazantzakis plays, the best actor of his generation, Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, who already has made sense of the metamorphosis.
The rest of the cast
Almost all of the roles will be supported by important Greek actors. Full cast of the movie is:
In the role of Helen Kazantzakis, Marina Kalogirou, George Zorba, played by the actor, director and writer Theodore Αθερίδης, Angelos Sikelianos, Nikos Καρδώνης. The role of the Mother of Kazantzakis occupying three awards Horn Maria Skoula. The role of the Father of Kazantzakis, Argyris Xafis. Melina Mercouri plays the Zeta Duke, Professor of Theology Panos Σκουρόλιακος, Professor of Physics, Ilias Logothetis, the Bereaved Cretan Ersi Μαλικένζου. The role of Ίτκα the Γιούλικα Σκαφιδά, in the role of Eva Sikelianos Amalia Arsenis, Olga Δαμάνη, Teresa Quick, Nikos Κορομβόκης and many others. In the role of El Greco, Michelangelo, Ανδρουλιδάκης, who is very friendly, and the role of the Priest, completely transformed, Stathis Psaltis.
In the above-mentioned actors is to be added to the friendly participation of Ελληνοαμερικανίδας Anthoula Katsimatides, in the role of the good witch, Chrisoula Πουαριέ.Source