Completed - GREEK, ENGLISH - Drama - 95 minutes
Based on the novel APARTMENT IN ATHENS by Glenway Wescott, the film deals with topics such as drama, history and war during the German occupation of Athens in 1943.
Year of production : 2011 Director(s) : Ruggero DIPAOLA Writer(s) : Heidrun SCHLEEF, Ruggero DIPAOLA, Luca DE BENEDITTIS Cast : Laura MORANTE, Richard SAMMEL, Gerasimos SKIADARESIS Producer(s) : Ruggero DIPAOLA (L'Occhio e la Luna)
Athens, 1943. An apartment is requisitioned to provide accommodation for a German officer. In the apartment live the Helianos, a middle-aged couple who used to be well-off. He is an intellectual, moderate and patient. She is an anxious housewife. They have a ten-year old son who is filled with melodramatic revenge fantasies and a twelve-year old daughter. With the arrival of Captain Kalter everything is wiped out. The methodical, ascetic, cruel Kalter is a military god who inflicts terror. And the Helianos give in, submissive. They are now servants, with no identity other than their acquiescence. The will of the military god is their only worry. The apartment enshrouds them like an epidermis. At night, clinging to each other on the folding bed in the kitchen, they weave wild ravings: they dread the following day’s orders, they exchange sparse, terse words. They are afraid of making noise, they don’t want to move anything. Then, suddenly the absence. The master leaves for Germany and the servants find out that freedom doesn’t have any meaning and that the ordeal goes on. When Kalter comes back, they feel relieved. He is a changed man: he’s kinder, even indulgent. His indulgency is bewildering. But it is a fragile balance. Underground currents of hatred flow secretly and prepare a chilling revenge.
Country(ies) : ITALY
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