THE OTHER LETTER by Lambros Liaropoulos | 1976 | 72´
Narrator: Andreas Kastanas.
Awards / Distinctions / Festival participations: Second Award for Best Film, Cinematography Award, Thessaloniki Film Festival 1976.
It begins as a first-person essay with Liaropoulos explaining that "the film we are making has no plot or actors. Time that passes and the world around us that changes are the film’s protagonists. This world is all of us; everyone who has a job, children or people they love. It is our homes, the city we live in, our country. The film camera captures images of everyday life and their meaning." The film incorporates his two short films, Letter from Charleroi, shot in 1965 when he was still working as Henri Langlois' assistant at the French Cinematheque, and Athens, a Smiling City, shot in 1967 just before the rise of the dictatorship. These images are all tied together to form a riveting attempt to talk about the relationship between the director and the country as they try to adjust to a new decade, a new era. His relationship, and ultimately the relationship of all of us with life and with our own country.
The film will be screened in a newly restored digital copy (DCP), created for the purposes of the event “Motherland, I See You”, with English subtitles.
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