10 Days to Destruction (The Flight of the Swan)2010

Director
Nikos Tzimas

Acters

James D'Arcy (Alexis)
Alicia Witt (Maria)
Colm Meaney (Giannopolus)
Linda Gray (Alexis' mother)
Tom Frederic (Socrates)
Georgina Rylance (Anna)

A young idealist is recruited by a US multinational company and as he climbs the corporate ladder he loses friends, his family, his values and gradually transforms into the person he has always despised.
Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress and convolutions of career and economic success shatter him, alienating him from everyone and everything he loves: even his children and his soul mate Maria. Alexis is jolted back to reality when the unbridled greed of the multinational conglomerate company is involved in causes an unprecedented ecological catastrophe costing many human lives. The multinational’s Golden Boy suddenly realizes that he is nothing more than a cog in the machine he had fought so passionately against in his youth. He is determined to rediscover himself, to reclaim his soul, to rebuild the dream with Maria – but he is completely trapped. He is caught in a web of intrigue that tightens like a vice driving him to an inevitably lethal conflict with the conglomerate. The story quickly evolves into a nerve rending adventure with driving action, relentless conflicts, unexpected reversals, insurmountable dilemmas and volatile internal pressures all leading to the triumph of love, friendship, beauty and life.
“According to Nikos Tzimas, he had the idea since the 1980s, but he didn’t dare to make it because he didn’t want to get money from the Greek Film Centre, the Ministry of Culture, ERT or some bigwig. Now was probably the right time for Nikos Tzimas to make this film, because his work, though with a timeless message, seems more relevant today than ever. For that reason alone, for me, he deserves to be congratulated!” – Tainies Pou Eidame
“The amazing story of a ‘golden boy’ whom a multinational made king in exchange for his soul. In the vertigo of success, he leaves behind his values, his friends, his family, even the love of his life.” – Cineuropa