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for three seasons, from 15 October 2020 to 20 June 2023. It recounts the experiences of the Antonopoulos family during the

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, the Greek transition to democracy and the first years of the democratic

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Development

The series is an adaptation of ''

Cuéntame cómo pasó ' (Spanish, 'Tell me how it happened'), usually shortened to ''Cuéntame'' and also known in English as ''Remember When'', is a Spanish prime-time television drama series which has been broadcast on La 1 of Televisión Española since 2001. It ...

'', a

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series by

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starring

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and

Ana Duato Ana Consuelo Duato Boix (born 18 June 1968) is a Spanish actress, who is best known of portraying Mercedes Fernández López in the television series ''Cuéntame cómo pasó''. Biography Ana Consuelo Duato Boix was born on 18 June 1968, in Va ...

. It has also been adapted in

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by RTP as ''

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'' with

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and

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, in

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by Televisión Pública Argentina as ''

'' with

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and and in

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as '' Raccontami'' with

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and

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, The first episode was broadcast on 15 October 2020. The series begins in July 1969 with the arrival of television to the house of the Antonopoulos just in time to watch the

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. The story reflects the changes in Greece since then.

Plot

Stelios and Maria are a married couple that have emigrated in the 1960s from a small village in

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, to a working-class suburb in

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, along with her mother Ermioni and their three children, Elpida, Antonis and Angelos seeking a better life away from the hardships of an impoverished countryside. The Antonopoulos' story is narrated from an indefinite present by an adult Angelos. Their story is directly and indirectly affected by the events and the social, economical and political changes occurring in Greece from the late 1960s until the early 1980s.

Cast

The cast of the series is led by those of the Antonopoulos family: * as Maria Antonopoulou * as Stelios Antonopoulos * as Ermioni * as Nana * Erifyli Kitzoglou as Elpida Antonopoulou * Dimitris Kapouranis as Antonis Antonopoulos * Manolis Gkinis as Angelos Antonopoulos * Vassilis Charalampopoulos as the voice of adult Angelos Antonopoulos

Episodes

References

External links

*
Official production website

''Ta Kalytera mas Chronia''
at ERTflix * {{Authority control Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation original programming 2020 Greek television series debuts 2023 Greek television series endings Television series set in the 1960s Television series set in the 1970s Television series set in the 1980s Television shows set in Athens