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Letters from Athens

Letters from Athens
NR 1 hr 28 minDocumentary
With the German Occupation in Greece 19411944 as a background this film tells the love story between my father an assistant professor at the mysterious German Scientific Institute of Athens financed by the occupying power Germany but in reality a refuge for resistant students and Nelly a young student in Fine Arts The film also traces the portrait of their friend Rudolf Fahrner founder of the Institute comrade of the Stauffenberg Brothers and one of the few conspirators of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944 that survived the repression that followed
DirectorTimon Koulmasis
WriterTimon Koulmasis

Movie Details

Original Language:Greek (Modern)
Production Companies:AIA Films Goethe Institut EPT Vidéo de Poche Lichtblick Film WDR Film und Medienstiftung NRW CNC