Letters from Athens

Letters from Athens

88 mins | Documentary | Oct. 24, 2016

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.

Letters from Athens

88 mins | Documentary | Oct. 24, 2016

Letters from Athens
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.
Producers Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Goethe Institut, Lichtblick Film, Hellenic Radio & Television, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Vidéo de Poche, AIA Films, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
Original title Briefe aus Athen
Directors Timon Koulmasis
Writers Timon Koulmasis

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