Efthimis Filippou

The Photograph

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Credits

Original title :
I fotografia
Country :
Grèce-France
Year :
1986
Director :
Nikos Papatakis
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
102 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Aris Retsos, Despina Tomazani, Christos Tsangas
Awards :
Best Film & Best Screenplay, Thessaloniki Film Festival 1986
🗣️ Film programmed by Efthimis Filippou, who will also introduce his choice

synopsis

Fleeing political turmoil in Greece, Ilias travels to Paris and seeks out Gerasimos, a homesick relative working there as a furrier. A misunderstanding involving a photograph that Ilias has brought with him leads each man into a tangled web of deception and delusion that lays bare their complex relationships to their homeland.
Visuel de : The Photograph

Nico Papatakis brilliantly dissects the soul of modern Greece in this darkly comic, cuttingly perceptive exile’s tale.

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A fierce comment on the modern history of the country and the power of the collective imaginary.

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