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Release Date:
January 24, 2019
Original Title:
Lettre à Théo
Alternate Titles:
Επιστολή στον Θόδωρο Αγγελόπουλο
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Blonde
Iota Production
Production Countries:
Belgium | Greece
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 70
The filmmaker Théo Angelopoulos died on January 24th, 2012, knocked down by a motorbike on the set of his final film. In his unfinished film, he was telling the destinies of the victims of the Greek crisis. The list of victims of the crisis has only grown longer, this destitution echoing another that Théo had sensed was coming: that of the massive arrival of refugees who find themselves trapped in Greece by the closure of the borders. Yet citizen resistance is being organized and fights every day to bring those in danger of obliteration out of the shadows. Ironically, the ambulance supposed to come to his rescue broke down because budgetary restrictions had made it impossible to maintain the vehicle. The crisis itself killed Théo. This is a letter addressed to him in the form of a film.
Assistant Editor:
Romain Waterlot
Co-Producer:
Fenia Cossovitsa
Director:
Elodie Lélu
Director of Photography:
Tristan Galand
Editor:
Philippe Boucq
Producer:
Isabelle Truc
Sound Editor:
Aurélien Lebourg
Sound Recordist:
Félix Blume
Bruno Schweisguth
Writer:
Elodie Lélu
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