Film

Letters from Athens

2016 · 1h 28m · Documentary

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.

• Timon KoulmasisWriter · Producer · Director
• Carl-Ludwig RettingerProducer
• Aurique DelannoyEditor

Release date

October 24, 2016

Status

Released

Original language

Greek

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Documentary