Angelos Film

Angelos Papanastassiou the man behind the camera a story of a Greek patrician of WW2 times Athens In the very first days of the Nazi occupation Angelos decided to record and document the Greece motherlands sufferings Using a clandestine 16mm film camera risking daily his own and his families life filmed documented the Nazi atrocities in Athens all through the GermanItalian occupation Meanwhile his daughter Loukia was born and we follow her first steps as the family life images juxtaposed over the tragic chapter of modern Greek history Angelos Papanastassiou secretly developed edited and saved the films which later become one of the principal evidence of the Nazi atrocities at the Nuremberg Trials 1947 The Angelos Film composed from a unique film journal of wartime Athens and offers a new insight to Greeces past with the music of Tibor Szemzõ