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title: "TV series: 50 Kitchens, one City – Greece"
description: "TV series - 50 Kitchens, one City: the greek restaurant Ousia by Athanasios Gortsas in Berlin Schoenberg."
url: "https://basiliscus.net/en/references/50-kitchens-one-city/50-kitchens-greece"
date: "2026-05-22T21:06:10+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
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TV Series · Mediterranean Soul – Greek Cooking in Berlin

#  TV series: 50 Kitchens, one City – Greece

## Produced for Deutsche Welle – with love, hunger and a camera crew.

»50 Kitchens, One Home« – Basiliscus Film produced 50 magazine features over nine months on behalf of Deutsche Welle for the lifestyle magazine euromaxx.

[ Stephanie Drescher](https://basiliscus.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=175:author-stephanie-drescher-uk&catid=19:team&lang=en-GB&Itemid=674 "Author Stephanie Drescher") was responsible for editing, research and organisation, whilst [Uwe Schwarze](https://basiliscus.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=176:cameraman-camera-operator-berlin&catid=19:team&lang=en-GB&Itemid=672 "Cameraman Berlin – Uwe Schwarze") handled camera work and [post-production](https://basiliscus.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=181:avid-postproduction-berlin-germany&catid=22:profil-videoproduktion-berlin&lang=en-GB&Itemid=656 "Post production and VFX in Berlin"). Together, we filmed in 50 Berlin kitchens, wrote all the voice-over scripts and penned the text for the accompanying publication. **50 people, 50 recipes, 50 stories** about home, cooking and life in one of the world’s most diverse cities.

### TV and web series with the Greek restaurant »Taverna Ousia«

Sunshine on the plate, the sea somewhere in the memory – and in the middle of it all, a Berlin kitchen that smells of oregano and olive oil. Greek food always carries a story with it. Telling that story without over-romanticising it is the craft that defines our [video production](https://basiliscus.net/index.php?Itemid=670&lang=en "Film production company Berlin") work. This episode is one of our favourites from the entire series.

“My parents moved to a foreign country, and I was born here, but they did not want my brother and me to forget where we came from. That's why they taught us the Greek culture – the language, the food,” Athanasios Gortsas tells us when we meet him for the series “50 Kitchens, one city” at the [Taverna Ousia](http://www.taverna-ousia.de/ "Taverna Ousia"). The ancient Greek tradition plays an important role in the restaurant, which is specialized on Mezedes, small dishes that have a great advantage: you can try something of everything. Typical Greek is also the lamb shoulder in red wine sauce, which we have prepared together. One eats it with fresh vegetables.

####  Client

Deutsche Welle TV | euromaxx

####  topic

International Restaurants in Berlin

####  Website

1. [Taverna Ousia](https://www.taverna-ousia.de/)

####  Produced

April 2016 – April 2017

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####  Our Services

- Research, organization and planning of the film production
- Shooting with own equipment (Sony FS7, Nikon D800)
- directing and interviews
- Post production and color grading with AVID Symphony on MacPro
- Research and music selection
- Photo editing and motion graphics with After Effects
- Adding of German and English graphic elements
- Writing the off-text for the speaker and the book
- Transcoding for HD exploitation

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