Open Letter

Like a Truffaut hero, Jim is wandering aimlessly through the streets of Athens in 1960. Memories of the German Occupation, bar hopping, sex with women of the swinging 60s and his conservative family outline the portraits of a man and a society that drift between a vain modernization and a petty-bourgeois conformism, a few years before the advent of the military coup. One of the most significant debuts of Greek cinema, which was rejected at Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1969.

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Direction: George Stamboulopoulos

Script: George Stamboulopoulos

Cinematography: Walter Lassaly

Editing: Panos Kyriakopoulos

Sound: Andonis Bairaktaris

Music: Nikos Mamangakis

Actors: Nikoforos Naneris, Eleni Theofilou, Betty Arvaniti, Dimitra Zeza, Betty Valasi

Producers: George Stamboulopoulos

Make Up: Yorgos Stavrakakis, Julie Stamboulopoulou

Format: 35mm

Color: B&W

Production Country: Greece

Production Year: 1968

Duration: 80'

Awards/Distinctions: FISPRESCI Prize – Locarno IFF 1968, Switzerland

George Stamboulopoulos

Filmography

1968 Open Letter
1980 Marching on to Glory
1983 Caution Danger
1991 Two Suns in the Sky
2006 Pandora