For the fourth Time, the Greek film festival Hellas Filmbox has appeared in the Berlin Babylon cinema. The Film “The last note” about a concentration camp in the Athens suburb of Chaidari, opened the Festival.
Almost 30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the Festival this year is under the Motto “No Walls – More Horny”. In addition to feature films and award winning documentaries as well as newcomers-works by Greek filmmakers are on the program.
The Festival begins with the opening film “The last note” in the Original with German subtitles. The Film is set during the Second world war, in the Athens suburb of Chaidari. Of the German occupation, the SS here is a concentration camp. There, the resistance fighters by Napoleon Sakotzides during his captivity is the commander to the interpreter of the German stock Karl Fischer. 200 Greek resistance fighters on 1. May 1944 executed.
At the opening of the Hellas Filmbox, the of 16. to 20. January is announced to Maria Farantouri. The 71-Year-old is regarded as the most important singer in Greece. You will interpret the ballad of Mauthausen. It is based on the poetry of Iakovos Kambanellis, who survived the concentration camp of Mauthausen.
The final film deals with the history: “in 1968,” of “cinnamon and coriander”-Director Tassos Boulmetis is devoted to a basketball game between AEK Athens and Slavia Prague from the 4. May 1968.
“Me, the German audience and the Berliner Greeks, the came, the halls, the presence of many Directors and the speed with which this Festival was the audience assumed was impressive,” said Yannis Sakarides, Director of “Wild Duck” and “America Square” after the first Hellas Filmbox.
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