The 1990 motion picture of Dimos Avdeliodis, Niki tis Samothrakis, is a respectable and notable feature film that encloses so many positive elements in the way that the story is revealing itself. This is one of the few greek films that its creative writing and directing gives us a different insight of events, with references to the silent films and peculiar accounts in the lives of workers of Piraeus.
Two brothers from the island of Samos open a steel manufacture shop in Athens. Next to them, a resident of the island Samothraki opens a vehicle bodies repair shop. Soon enough, a conflict begins between the two of them that will be passed on their grandchildren.
The film has not the typical greek humor, but rather it reminds us movies like Delicatessen- also in means of coloring and lighting-, maybe some black humor scenes from the Coens Brothers or sometimes even scenes from Buster Keaton's films-silent short films with delicate and witty humor.
There is also the reference of the movie title and the greek sculpture Niki tis Samothrakis which is now exhibited in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Imagination and reality are interacted when some beautiful girls are observing the men or running or hover in the air, sometimes naked, sometimes with ancient-like clothes, or with the wings of the sculpture Niki tis Samothrakis, at the very end of the movie. These female figures reminds us the greek mythology, more specifically, the Nymphs. It is saying that they were female fairies who were depicted as humble figures with modest clothing, occasionally naked. They were living in nature, and their parents were some of the gods. There are also stories about their erotic attitude towards humans.
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