The Red River

Name: The Red River
Genre: Drama
Cast: Anastasia Pantousi, Omiros Poulakis, Pavlos Kourtidis, Filippos Sofianos, Konstantinos Kazakos

TV series
2019–2023
2 seasons
Open Beyond TV
Drama

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May 1895. Our story begins when the family of George Pavlides engages their 12-year-old son, Miltos, with the 9-year-old daughter of Michalis Nikolaidis, Ifigenia. The attacks of fanatical Turks will force the two families to flee their homeland. The two youngsters will meet again in Istanbul 11 years later. Unaware of the family relationship that binds them, they instantly fall in love. The two lovers try to live their love, while being dragged by the whirlwind of historical events of the time.

About the show

The Red River (Greek: Το Κόκκινο Ποτάμι, Romanized: To Kokkino Potami) is a Greek-language historical television series, directed by Manousos Manousakis for Open TV in 2019, to 2023 based on the homonymous historical novel by Charis Tsirkinidis, and concerns real events surrounding the Greek Genocide.

This is the most expensive production in the history of Greek television with a total cost of over 4 million euros.

On October 6, 2019, Open TV started broadcasting To Kokkino Potami every Sunday at 9:00pm. It continued on May 24, 2020, after the break because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece, at 10:00pm. The last episode was broadcast on July 13, 2020.

Starred by Ioannis Papazisis, Anastasia Pantousi, Tania Tripi, Konstantinos Kazakos, Takis Vamvakidis, Tatiana Papamoschou, Argiris Pantazaras and Chara Mata Giannatou.

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