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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 motherland's sufferings. Using a clandestine 16-mm film camera risking daily his own, and his families life, filmed, documented the Nazi atrocities in Athens all through the German-Italian 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 Greece’s past, with the music of Tibor Szemzõ.

 

VIDEO INTRO FROM ANGELOS FILM

 

credits
1999 - 60min - video

Director Péter Forgács
Music Tibor Szemzõ
Editor Kati Juhász
MusiciansThe Gordian Knot
Sound mix Zsolt Hubay
Advisors András Forgách, Nikos Fokas
Narrators Caroline Bodóczky, Péter Forgács

producer / distributor
Cesar Messemaker © Lumen Film 2005
cesarmessemaker@lumenfilm.demon.nl

awards
2001 Best Music and Soud Track special award, One World Film Festival, Prague
2000 Grand Prize, XI Encotros Internacionalis De Cinema Documental, Portugal
2000 Golden Gate Award, The Golden Spire at the San Francisco
International Film Festival

 
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