Letters from Athens

Letters from Athens(2016)

October 24, 2016
1h 28m

Overview

With the German Occupation in Greece (1941-1944) 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.

Crew

Details

Original Title

Briefe aus Athen

Original Language

el

Country

France, Germany, Greece

Production

AIA Films, Goethe-Institut, ERT, Vidéo de Poche, Lichtblick Film, WDR, CNC

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