'Miss Violence' shocks with domestic abuse tales
Avranas says he was seeking to give domestic abuse victims a voice in his deeply disturbing movie.
VENICE, Italy (AP) - Greek director Alexandro Avranas says he was seeking to give domestic abuse victims a voice in his deeply disturbing movie "Miss Violence."
Avranas said in an interview that the film was based on a true story in Germany about a grandfather who prostituted his daughter and his granddaughters to his friends.
The director said he was driven to make a film to "speak all about these children who have no voice."
He said while the actors grew depressed due to the movie s subject matter "they had the feeling that they are helping other persons to stop doing this, to see a way to make a revolution.
That was our hope, our motive."
The film premieres Monday in competition at the Venice Film Festival.
