First Time Godfather

Brought up in California, the offspring of an important political family, 11-year-old Alex travels to Crete in order to baptize the baby of a local party boss and parliamentary candidate. He will be a First Time Godfather in order to prove to everybody and mainly to his father that he is a worthy son. His foreign looks, his difficulty with the Greek language, the peculiarities of the Cretans and the tests he has to go through in order to be accepted as a worthy son of the Leader, create a comedy with a political background, existential angst and tragicomic situations. His first baptism/initiation into the art and tricks of politics will mark him for the rest of his life.

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Script: Olga Malea, Nikos Papandreou
Cinematography: Costis Gikas
Editing: Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Sound: Marinos Athanassopoulos
Music: Costas Livadas
Actors: Antonis Kafetzopoulos (Panagakis), Eleni Kastani (Panagakena), Yorgos Kimoulis (President), Tex Pardue (Alex), Nikos Andreoulakis (Panos), Anna Louizidou (Myrto), Manos Gavras (Nikitas), Yannis Kalat
Production: CL Productions
Producers: Costas Lambropoulos
Co-production: Odeon, Greek Film Center, Multichoice Hellas-Nova, Filminmind, East Media, Finos Films (Greece)
Costumes: Eva Nathena
Sets: Eva Nathena
Make Up: Fani Alexaki
Format: 35 mm Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2007
Duration: 97

Olga Malea

She was born in Athens in 1960, studied Film Direction and Scriptwriting at Yale and holds a PhD in Psychology. She is also a graduate of the University of Athens School of Law and has a BA in Psychology from Deree College,Athens. First Time Godfather is her fifth feature film.

Filmography

1986 I raconti della boca – Storie di Genovesi e nostalgia (doc.)
1990 Childhood Memories:The Books of Penelope Delta (doc.)
1996 The Cow’s Orgasm
1998 The Mating Game
2001 Risotto
2005 Honey and the Pig
2007 First Time Godfather