The Summer with Carmen poster

The Summer with Carmen( 2023)

TV-MAComedy
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Overview

While having a day-long swim at Athens’ queer beach, best friends Demosthenes and Nikitas recall the events of a recent summer in the prospect of turning them into a screenplay for Nikitas’ feature debut.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Yorgos Tsiantoulas

      Demosthenes

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      Andreas Labropoulos

      Nikitas

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      Nikolas Mihas

      Panos

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      Roubini Vasilakopoulou

      Kaiti

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      Vasilis Tsigristaris

      Thymios

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      Nantia Margariti

      Fenia

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      Clio Chavgie

      Eleni

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      Jacques Simha

      Kostakis

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      Christos Stathousis

      Worker

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      Antonis Karnavas

      Queer Boy #1

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      Nikos Georgakakis

      Queer Boy #2

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      Asi Biliou

      Self

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      Yannis Tsortekis

      Self

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      Stavros Karabatsos

      Rebetiko Queen

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      Angelos Sadam Selmanai

      Insecure Young Man

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      Aria Di Vine

      Drag Queen

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      Vanessa Veneti Kottika

      Lady with Dog

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      Konstantinos Velinopoulos

      60 Year Old Man

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      Michalis Ikonomou

      Slef

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      George Makris

      Self

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      Yannis Kokiasmenos

      Street Cleaner

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      Kostas Berikopoulos

      Vasilis (voice)

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      Lena Giaka

      Demosthene's co-worker

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      Vrasidas

      Rocky (Dog)

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      Molly

      Carmen's Double (Dog)

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      Nala

      Carmen (Dog)

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    A review by Brent Marchant

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    Written by Brent Marchant on Wed Sep 18 2024
    The movie-within-a-movie narrative is a popular cinematic storytelling approach, but, to my knowledge, writer-director Zacharias Mavroeidis’s fourth feature outing is the first film to make use of it in the LGBTQ+ genre. This endearing gay comedy-drama tells the story of two long-time best friends, Demosthenes (Yorgos Tsiantoulas), a former actor-turned civil servant, and Nikitas (Andreas Labropoulos), a former actor-turned aspiring filmmaker, who try to come up with a concept for the would-be auteur’s latest movie project while hanging out together at a nude beach on the stunningly beautiful G...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • beach
    • athens, greece
    • lgbt
    • queer
    • gay theme