LETTERS FROM AMERICA
ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΑΜΕΡΙΚΗ
LETTERS FROM AMERICA
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in
25 Kasım Cumartesi 11.00
Greece | 1972 | DCP | Color, B&W | 19’ Greek – Turkish & English Subtitled
Director of Photography:: Lakis Papastathis
Screenplay: Lakis Papastathis
Director of Photography: Thanasis Netas
Editing: Thanasis Rentzis
Anlatıcı: Theodoros Katsadramis
Awards
Thessaloniki FF En İyi Kurmaca Kısa Film, Film Eleştirmenleri Birliği Ödülü | Thessaloniki FF Best Fiction Short Film, Hellenic Association of Film Critics Award
SYNOPSIS
The film, using over 120 postcards and photographs, takes its inspiration from a letter collection discovered by Lakis Papastathis in an antique shop. These letters were sent by Anastasios to his homeland Gytheio over a fifty-year period after his migration to America in 1905. They bear witness to how a nation, forced into migration, was severed from its roots.
Lakis Papastathis (1946)
He was born in the city of Volos, in Greece and studied Film Directing in Athens. In the years 1968-1971 he worked as an assistant director in several films. In 1971, he founded the production company Cinetic with Takis Haztopoulos and worked with the Greek National Television on co-productions. He is known for his award-receiving films such as “When the Greeks” (1981), “Theophilos” (1987), “The Only Journey of His Life” (2001) and has also worked as a writer.
