Behind the Haystacks
A middle-aged fisherman living with his wife and daughter on Greece’s northern border, who is drowning in debt, starts to smuggle migrants across the border lake, in exchange for a hefty fee. Until a tragic incident strikes the family, pushing the three heroes to face their own personal impasses and weaknesses.
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Stathis Stamoulakatos
Stergios
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Eleni Ouzounidou
Maria
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Evgenia Lavda
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Paihnidia Ekdikisis
Christos Kontogeorgis
Christos
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Dina Mihailidou
Georgia
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Paschalis Tsarouchas
Dimitris
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Giannis Degaitis
Priest Thanassis
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Τα Φιλαράκια
Kostas Filippoglou
Pantelis
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Chevalier
Litsa Giannou
Christina
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Η Χειρότερη Εβδομάδα της Ζωής μου
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Stefanos Kosmidis
Lawyer
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Anastasias Kozdine
Illir
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Asimina Proedrou Director · Marios Strofalis Composer Simos Sarketzis Cinematographer
First release November 11, 2022 · Produced in Germany, Greece, North Macedonia · Languages Arabic, English, Greek, Macedonian
Production
Argonauts Productions
Production
Sektor Film
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Fiction Park
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Das kleine Fernsehspiel
Production
ARTE
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ZDF
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ERT
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Atalante Productions
Production
Germany · Greece · North Macedonia
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Languages
Original title
Πίσω από τις Θημωνιές
Original language
Greek
Spoken on screen
Arabic · English · Greek · Macedonian
Release dates
Greece · November 11, 2022
Premiere · THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Greece · January 19, 2023
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Brazil
January 14, 2026 · Digital
France
November 16, 2023 · TV · ARTE
Indonesia
June 8, 2024 · Premiere · Europe on Screen
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