A six-episode documentary series, by Eleni Varvitsioti and Victoria Dendrinou, journalists and authors of the book “The Last Bluff”. The dramatic events of 2015 come to life again and the moment when Greece came within a breath of leaving the euro. With unique access to the people who made the decisions, from Athens and Brussels, to Berlin and Washington,…
Who Swims Naked? January 2015. Greece is at a historic crossroads. The electoral victory of SYRIZA, led by Alexis Tsipras, ignites an explosive mix of hope, expectation and uncertainty. The new government promises to turn everything…
Where is the money? What happens when a new government takes power and discovers that the state could run out of money within a few days? We enter the first, crucial days of the SYRIZA-ANEL government in 2015 - at a time when…
In the third episode of Eleni Varvitsioti and Victoria Dendrinou’s documentary series, “At the Millicent,” the negotiations are spiraling into chaos. Time is running out, the coffers are emptying, and trust between Greece and its European…
The fourth episode of Eleni Varvitsioti and Victoria Dendrinou’s documentary series, entitled “Codename Albania,” takes the viewer inside the secret plans that were drawn up for Greece’s eventual exit from the euro, revealing what they…
How close did Greece come to exiting the euro in the summer of 2015? The fifth episode of the series “At the Millimetre” returns to the dramatic days leading up to the July 2015 referendum - the moment when negotiations between Greece…
The sixth and final episode of the documentary takes us to the most explosive days of the Greek summer of 2015 - from the week of the referendum to the crucial negotiations for a final agreement in Brussels. The harsh images of those days…
