Portrait of My Father in Times of War

Against a backdrop of the German occupation, the film tells the love story between my father, an assistant at the mysterious German Scientific Institute in Athens – in actual fact a refuge for fighters of the Resistance – and Nelly, a student at the School of Fine Arts. The film also draws the portrait of their friend Rudolf Fahrner, founder of the Institute, a comrade of the Stauffenberg Brothers, and one of the few conspirators of the assassination attempt on Hitler, on 20 July 1944, to survive the repression that followed.

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Script: Timon Koulmasis

Cinematography: Odysseas Pavlopoulos. Timon Koulmasis

Editing: Aurique Delannoy

Music: Eric Demarsan

Production: Aia Films

Producers: Timon Koulmasis

Co-production: Lichtblick Filmproduktion, WDR-3sat, ERT SA CNC, SCAM, Goethe-Institut Athen, J.F. Costopoulos Foundation

Co-producers: Carl-Ludwig Rettinger

Narration: Guido Lambrecht, Huseyin Michael Cirpici, Iro Siafliaki

Format: Color-B&W

Production Country: Germany-Greece-France

Production Year: 2016

Duration: 88

Distribution in Greece: Carousel Films, carousel@otenet.gr

Contact: Lichtblick Filmproduktion info@lichtblick-film.de

World Premiere

Timon Koulmasis

Filmography

(selected)
2000 Anis N. – Tρομοκράτης ή Eπαναστάτης; | Anis N. – Revolutionary or Terrorist?
2016 Πορτραίτο του πατέρα σε καιρό πολέμου | Letters from Athens – Portrait of My Father in Times of War