For young Italian-Greek actress Fotinì Peluso , landing the lead role in high-end TV series “The Great Chimera” — based on one of the most important Greek novels of the 20th century — has been a great way “to make contact with my homeland,” she says.

The six-episode 1930s-set show, which is among the highlights of Beta Film ‘s upcoming Mipcom slate, stars Peluso as Marina, an Italian beauty fraught with family trauma who falls in love with a seductive Greek sea captain played by Andreas Konstantinou (“Milky Way,” “Cloudy Sunday”). She decides to join him to start a new life on the idyllic island of Syros. There, enchanted by her surroundings, Marina becomes fascinated by her husband’s erudite younger brother played by Dimitris Kitsos (“The Beach”). This leads to her descent into a v

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