Cast
James Galbraith
James Galbraith, American economist, holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and a professorship in Government at The University of Texas at Austin. Galbraith as an adviser of Yanis Varoufakis is well aware of the background of the negotiations during the first half of 2015.
Alexis Tsipras
Alexis Tsipras, leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), served as Prime Minister of Greece from January 2015 until July 2019. This was the first time in Greece’s history a party of the radical left came to power. Today, after his defeat by the conservative party, New Democracy, in the last national elections, he is again the Leader of the Opposition. Tsipras was first elected to the Hellenic Parliament in 2009.
Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis, economist and academic, served as Minister of Finance, under the administration of Alexis Tsipras, from January until July 2015 when he resigned. In March 2018, he launched the party MeRA25 with which he entered the Hellenic Parliament in July 2019.
Magda Fyssa
Magda Fyssa is the mother of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, who was murdered in 2013 by a member of Golden Dawn, the neo-Nazi party that had been in the parliament from 2012 to 2019. The murder of Pavlos Fyssas unleashed a string of events that led to one of the biggest trials in Greece’s modern history. Magda Fyssa, being in the courts everyday since 2015 has turned into a symbol of the anti-fascist movement.
Tzouan & Nermin
Tzouan and Nermin are a young couple of Syrian Kurds who were forced to flee from their home city Al-Hasakah in Syria to escape war. After a long and dangerous journey through Turkey they arrived in Greece in 2016. Since then, having crossed the entire country from Athens to Idomeni and back, they have finally managed to arrive in the Netherlands seeking to start a new life in a safe haven.
Zak Kostopoulos
Zak Kostopoulos, LGBTQ and HIV activist, was born in 1985. In September 21, 2018 Zak was lynched to death in broad daylight in the center of Athens. Trapped in a jewelry shop, for reasons that remain unknown, he was brutally bitten first by the owner of the shop and his neighbour and then by the police. Finally Zak succumbed to his injuries, sparking debate over society’s reflexes in addressing injustice and embracing diversity.
Nikos Kostopoulos
Nikos Kostopoulos is the brother of Zak Kostopoulos who was lynched to death in September 2018. Nikos talks about his brother’s death and the circumstances under which it occurred. He, along with a movement sparked by Zak’s death, seeks justice for his brother and shares his concern over the conservative reflexes of the society.
Dimitris Kotsonis
Dimitris Kotsonis, trainee surgeon, is a vivid example of the brain-drain that took place in Greece during the crisis. About 400,000 young people, most of them university educated, left Greece during the crisis and Dimitris was one of them. He now lives in Germany, working at a hospital in Duisburg and he has no intention to return to Greece.
Emilia Kamvisi
Emilia Kamvisi is a permanent resident of Lesbos island. She was one of the three senior women, known as the grandmothers of Lesbos, captured in 2015 by the photographic lens feeding a refugee baby. Emilia Kamvisi explains how their family’s refugee past urged them to help people seeking a safe haven in Greece.
Lars P. Feld
Lars P. Feld is a member of the German Council of Economic Experts since 2011 and as an adviser of the German Government he has followed closely the developments in the Greek crisis. Feld is also director of the Walter Eucken Institut and Professor for Economic Policy at the University of Freiburg.
Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII. Badiou in 2017 published the book Greece and the Reinvention of Politics, analyzing, what he calls, the failure of the Syriza experience in Greece.
Seraphim Seferiades
Seraphim Seferiades is an Associate Professor of Politics at the Panteion University of Social and Political Science, Athens and Life Member in Politics and History at the University of Cambridge (CLH). His work spans European and Greek labor and social history, contentious politics and social science methodology.
Yorgos Pleios
Yorgos Pleios is a professor and head of the Communication and Mass Media Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in Political Analysis of Communication. He is also director of the Laboratory for Social Research in Mass Media and member of the Research Committee of the university.
Tina Stavrinaki
Tina Stavrinaki is a lawyer specialized in International and European Human Rights Law. She has worked for five years as a legal officer with the National Commission for Human Rights and she is currently assistant coordinator of the Racist Violence Recording Network which she helped establish in 2011.
Lia
Lia, a housewife and mother of two, used to live in Thessaloniki, in northern Greece. After several years of unemployment for both Lia and her husband, their financial distress became critical and decided to migrate to Germany. Today, divided, between the longing for her country and her desire to offer her children a better future, Lia struggles to get accustomed to a new life away from home.
Klaus Regling
Klaus P. Regling is a German economist and current Chief Executive Officer of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). Although, he has admitted the fact that the institutions had underestimated the depth of the Greek crisis, he never opted for an alternative handling.
Michel Sapin
Michel Sapin, former French politician, served as Minister of Finance from 1992 to 1993 and from 2014 to 2017, playing a crucial role during the 2015 negotiations between the Greek government and its institutional creditors.
Pierre Moscovici
Pierre Moscovici, French politician, had been minister of Finance from 2012 to 2014 when he assumed as European Commissioner of Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs. Moscovici, who had been in the heart of the negotiations of 2015, has publicly charged former Minister of Finance, Yanis Varoufakis, for the way he handled the negotiations with the institutions.
Jack Lew
Jack Lew, American attorney and Democratic Party politician, served as United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2013 to 2017. He watched closely developments in negotiations between Greece and its creditors, urging for the need to reach an agreement, while in 2016, in line with IMF, he called repeatedly for debt restructuring, deeming Greece’s debt as unsustainable.
Daleep Singh
Daleep Singh, American economist, worked at the U.S. Treasury from 2011 to 2017. As Assistant Secretary for financial markets he helped shape the Department’s response to the crisis in Greece. In February 2015 he visited Athens and met with the government’s economic and finance team.
