The Woman Who Missed Home (2005)

Original title

Η νοσταλγός

Directed by

Eleni Alexandrakis

Genre

drama, family

Country

Greece

Runtime

1h 22m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman feels a deep longing for her past home and struggles with her present life. The story follows her emotional journey as she tries to reconcile her memories with reality.

melancholicslow-burnintrospectiveyearningpoeticquietnostalgiclonely

What happens

I Nostalgos (Homesick) (Greek: Η Νοσταλγός) is a short novel of famous Greek essayist and novelist Alexandros Papadiamantis. The novel was written in 1894. In 2005 the novel was adapted for the cinema by the director Eleni Alexandraki and in 2013 was adapted for the theatre by the director Dimos Abdeliodis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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