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ΠΕΠΕΡΜΙΝΤ

1 hour 45 minutes – 1999 – Comedy, Drama, Romance

Old schoolmates attend a reunion party, an aviation engineer amongst them takes a trip down memory lane. He reminisces about his childhood and his extraordinary relationship with his cousin Marina. the sweet taste of love’s first kiss in his mouth. He recalls his first kiss and thirty years after that innocent peck on the lips, fate reunites two estranged soulmates. The viewer gets a glimpse of Greek society between 1955 and 1973.

CAST

George Corraface
Aggeliki Spiliopoulou
Anny Loulou
Alexandros Mylonas
Zoe Voudouri
Nikoletta Vlavianou
Tassos Palatzidis

CREDITS

DIRECTOR: Costas Kapakas
SCREENPLAY: Costas Kapakas
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Yannis Daskalothanassis
EDITING: Takis Yannopoulos
MUSIC: Panayotis Kalatzopoulos
SET & COSTUMES: Yorgos Georgiou, Alexndra Chorianopoulou, Maria Kontodima
SOUND Marinos Athanassopoulos

AWARDS

GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL
Gold medal (Costas Kapakas)
FORT LAUDERDALE FILM FESTIVAL
Best Director (Costas Kapakas)
THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL
Best Film
Best Debut Film Director (Costas Kapakas)
Best Screenplay (Costas Kapakas)
Best Actress (Anny Loulou)
Best Supporting Actor (Tassos Palatzidis)

REVIEWS

The first feature film of the director Kostas Kapakas, a brief history of Athens in the 1960s, is made with clarity of thought, perfection of European standards in all areas, attention to details (especially of the sets) and relative ease in the development of human relationships. It fits a bit into the “spray, wipe, done” logic to keep everyone satisfied. Mainly the viewers, even the most “difficult” ones. Also, structurally, it somewhat follows the recipe of the equally nostalgic “End of an Era”, which was a great success of Greek cinema in the 1990s.

Yannis Zoumboulakis – TO VIMA

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