To Kokkino Potami (2019)

Original title

Το Κόκκινο Ποτάμι

Directed by

Manousos Manousakis

Genre

drama

Country

Greece

Length

2 seasons, 59 episodes

Rated

12

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Greek family struggles to survive during the Greek Genocide in the early 20th century. The series follows their journey through hardship and loss.

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What happens

The Red River (Greek: Το Κόκκινο Ποτάμι, Romanized: To Kokkino Potami) is a Greek-language historical television series, directed by Manousos Manousakis for Open TV in 2019, to 2023 based on the homonymous historical novel by Charis Tsirkinidis, and concerns real events surrounding the Greek Genocide. This is the most expensive production in the history of Greek television with a total cost of over 4 million euros. On October 6, 2019, Open TV started broadcasting To Kokkino Potami every Sunday at 9:00pm. It continued on May 24, 2020, after the break because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece, at 10:00pm. The last episode was broadcast on July 13, 2020. Starred by Ioannis Papazisis, Anastasia Pantousi, Tania Tripi, Konstantinos Kazakos, Takis Vamvakidis, Tatiana Papamoschou, Argiris Pantazaras and Chara Mata Giannatou. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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