Utopia

Ουτοπία

When Hector Morros ?a news programme director at a TV channel_realises that the unknown woman he has been persistently dreaming of looks incredibly like Anna Villez, the wife of Werner Villez_an executive at a multi-national pharmaceutical company_he decides to discover the connection between his own and Anna’s past, and to find out about her relationship with her husband as well as with her therapist. In his effort to find answers to his questions, he will become entangled in dangerous ‘excavations’ and painful revelations.

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Direction: Yorgos Karypidis
Script: Yiorgos Karypidis, Stathis Valoukos
Cinematography: Lefteris Pavlopoulos
Editing: Panayiotis Koumoundouros
Sound: Vangelis Vlessas
Music: Nikos Kypourgos
Actors: Takis Spyridakis, Niki Palikaraki, Themistoklis Panou, Yannis Dalianis, Arto Apartian, Maria Katsandri
Production: HYPERION S.A., GREEK FILM CENTER, ERT S.A.
Producers: Panos Papahatzis, Nikos Kanakis
Costumes: Anastasia Arseni
Sets: Anastasia Arseni
Format: 35mm
Color: Colour
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2004
Duration: 85'

Yorgos Karypidis

He was born in Thessaloniki, in 1946. He studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. He made three documentaries for the SFB TV station in Berlin. Since 1975 he has directed over 100 documentaries. His publication include film and literary criticism articles (he was the first in Greece to write about the New Iranian Cinema and Abbas Kiarostami), as well as two collections of short stories, "Diving Champion" (1992) and "The Dialect of the Scorpion" (1998).

Filmography

1995 The Enchanted 
1993 Tainted Liqueur
1988-10 In the Shadow of Fear
1980 Confrontation
1993 The Tail of the Snake, TV film
1987 Witches, TV film
1980 The Painter Theophilos, short doc.
1981 Last Stop: Kreuzberg, short documentary