Greek director Avranos seeks to give voice to domestic violence victims with ‘Miss Violence’

VENICE, Italy – 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.