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I Dream of my Friends

ΟΝΕΙΡΕΥΟΜΑΙ ΤΟΥΣ ΦΙΛΟΥΣ ΜΟΥ

1 hour 54 minutes – 1993 – Drama

Four episode, four instances from a man’s life covering 25 years, from 1965 in Germany to 1990 in Athens. The episodes seem to be irrelevant to one another, yet they all focus on male powerplay, reveal the self-consciousness and moderation of the of the protagonist’s idiosyncrasy and depict some special aspect of the Greek male’s mentality. The film is based on the book by Dimitris Nollas.

CAST

Nikos Kouris
Athena Maximou
Zoe Nalbanti
Kostas Markopoulos
Thanassis Viskadourakis
Yannis Rozakis
George Dialegmenos
Thanos Alexandris

CREDITS

DIRECTOR: Nikos Panayotopoulos
SCREENPLAY: Nikos Panayotopoulos,
(based on a story by Dimitris Nollas)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: George Frentzos
EDITING: Yorgos Triandafyllou
SETS: Dionyssis Fotopoulos, Maria Kaltsa
COSTUMES: Marianna Spanoudaki
SOUND: Andreas Achladis, Thanassis Georgiadis

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REVIEWS

“I Dream of My Friends” is the road movie of an entire generation. From the 60s to the 90s. Four stories for four decades in four seasons. A hero, who in every story is 10 years older, observes life slipping away, year after year, through his hands. The sensational Lefteris Vogiatzis, in his greatest cinematic performance, traverses a path from the rooftops of Berlin where he lives as a student to the underground marble toilets of the “Great Britain” hotel that look like the luxurious tomb that will house the death of a generation he dreamed of the friends he didn’t get to have.

The film reads like notes for a reckoning that never happened. Everything that needs to be said is hidden or silenced. The landscape absorbs emotions and reflects them into sensations. Nuggets of stories and traces of each era create a suggestive web, on which Panagiotopoulos, with the ingredients of despair, austerity, and irony, weaves a beautiful film on the absence of relationships.

Aggelos Frantzis – Filmmaker

NIKOS PANAYOTOPOULOS

Born in Mytilene (Lesbos Island) in 1941 and passed away in Athens in 2016. He studied film in Athens while working as an assistant director in Greek and international productions. From 1960 to 1973, he lived in Paris, where he studied at the Sorbonne. In 1974, he returned to Greece and directed his first film, The Colors of Iris, an instant classic of New Greek Cinema. He was one of the most originaL and prolific directors of the New Wave of Greek Cinema. Developing his personal style, blending various genres—from comedy to crime films and from musicals to road movies—he directed 13 more films. His work focused on the lives of people in contemporary Greece, their interpersonal relationships, cinema itself, and art in general. His cinematic vision was characterized by humor and tenderness, with strong doses of irony and sarcasm about the human condition.

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