Electra 7
A film inspired by Sophocles’ Electra

Direction Sofia Exarchou, Christina Ioakeimidi, Babis Makridis, Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Elina Psykou, Alexander Voulgaris, Neritan Zinxhiria

Screenplay Panayotis Christopoulos

Cinematography Christos Karamanis, Nikos Karanikolas, Dimitris Lambridis, Simos Sarketzis, Manu Tilinski

Casting director Sofia Dimopoulou

Costume design Marli Aliferi, Elisavet Zacharaki

Set design Stavros Liokalos

Makeup Ioanna Lygizou

Sound engineer Stefanos Efthymiou

Cast Angeliki Papathemeli Clytemnestra, Kostas Koronaios Agamemnon, Avgoustis Koumoulos Aegisthus, Maria Filini CJEU Officer, Elsa Lekakou Electra, Stefanos Kaltzidis Orestes, Katerina Zisoudi Chrysothemis, Nikolas Hanakoulas Guard, Maria Kallimani Woman, Filippos Salatas Baby Chrysothemis, Thanos Alexiou Member of Parliament, Laertis Malkotsis Pedagogue, Danae Deligeorgi Child Psychologist, Evgenia Samara TV Host, Giorgos Kouvaras Reporter, Ioanna Rampaouni Police Officer Electra, Serafeim Radis Police Officer Orestes, Vasilis Dimitroulias Forensic Expert

Executive producer Mina Dreki | Marni Films

With Greek and English surtitles

The film is a production of the Athens Epidaurus Festival, in collaboration with the Hellenic Film Academy, and is being realised with the generous sponsorship of DEI.

DEI, the largest energy company in Southeastern Europe, supports everyone and everything that paves the way for a future brimming with culture. It fosters cultural production and highlights all forms of creative expression as a vehicle for social awareness and change.

Structured around a hypothetical matricide in present-day Greece, the film draws motifs and its thematic thread from Sophocles’ Electra to propose a narrative in seven parts—each offering a distinct perspective on the crime. Contrary to Sophocles tragedy, here the myth’s main figures speak a little or retreat in absolute silence. Their voices will instead be substituted by the Media, the Authorities, society at large, and their digital traces, with the quest for truth and its reconstruction ultimately proving unattainable.

Panayotis Christopoulos