Christmas Tango

Christmas Tango is based on the novel by Yannis Xanthoulis [el].

An unexpected meeting between the sixty-five-year-old Lazaros Lazarou and a young man, on Christmas Day brings back hidden memories from 1970 when a sensual tango at a Christmas celebration at an army camp in Evros was the focus for the intersection of four lives: an introverted soldier; a harsh lieutenant; a strict and very conservative colonel; and Zoi Loggou (Vicky Papadopoulou), the colonel's wife.

Zoi Loggou's life is suffocating until she discovers a secret admirer in the barracks who forces one of his soldiers to teach him how to dance the tango for the Christmas party so that he can get close to Zoi and reveal his love for her.

Coming back to the present and Zoi today is aged about sixty-five and also suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

• Yannis Bezos as Manolis Loggos
• Antinoos Albanis as Lazaros Lazarou
• Yannis Stankoglou as Stefanos Karamanidis
• Vicky Papadopoulou [el] as Zoi Loggou
• Eleni Kokkidou as Paraskevi
• Vassilis Risvas as Notis Voskopoulos
• Giannis Papagiannis as Anastasiou
• Foivos Kontogiannis as Balaskas
• Giorgos Papageorgiou as Doctor
• Vangelis Romnios as Bakas
• Thanos Chronis as Kallergis

Filming began in January 2011 in Aliartos, where part of the shoot took place at the buildings of the Kopais Organization.

In March 2011, the production moved to Karoti, where an abandoned military camp was cleaned and suitably modified to meet the needs of the shoot.

Filming also took place in the village of Metaxades in the Evros region, as well as in Athens, since the weather conditions in Evros did not allow all the scenes set in the military camp to be filmed there.

As a result, the interior scenes were filmed in locations in Athens and Aliartos.

• List of Christmas films