Plato’s Academy

2009
Drama
103'

Directed by
Filippos Tsitos

Screenplay
Alexis Kardaras, Filippos Tsitos

A Greek shopkeeper discovers something about his family’s past when his mother embraces an Albanian worker.

Stavros runs a small shop in Athens’ Akadimia Platonos district. Business isn’t going well – so most of the time, he hangs out in front of it with his three best friends. Stavros’ demented mother also regularly joins the group. Lacking anything better to do, the group spends all day reminiscing about the old days and badmouthing the insufferable foreigners. But Stavros, known as the loudest ranter, soon experiences his own personal worst-case scenario. The Albanian Marenglen claims to recognise his own mother in Stavros’ mother.

Locarno Film Festival 2009
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Silver Leopard - Best Actor: Antonis Kafetzopoulos
Tirana International Film Festival 2009
Jury Award for Best Film
Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2010
Best Actor: Antonis Kafetzopoulos
Los Angeles Greek Film Festival 2010
Orpheus Award - Best Feature Film
2009
Drama
103'

Directed by
Filippos Tsitos

Screenplay
Alexis Kardaras, Filippos Tsitos

Plato’s Academy

Cast
Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Anastasias Kozdine, Titika Sarigouli, Giorgos Souxes, Kostas Koronaios, Panayotis Stamatakis, Maria Zorba

Producers
Konstantinos Moriatis, Thanassis Karathanos

Editor
Dimitrius Peponis

Cinematography
Polidefkis Kirlidis

Set Decoration
Spyros Laskaris

Sound
Vangelis Zelkas

Costume Design
Hristina Hatzaridou

Studios
ARTE (FR), ZDF/Arte, Pan Entertainment, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, Greek Film Centre, EPT, Graal, Eurimages Council of Europe, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Language
Greek

Production Countries
Greece, Germany