Completed - GREEK, ENGLISH, GERMAN - Historical, Drama - 99 minutes
Topical, ripped-from-the-headlines, fictional drama, inspired in part by a true event, the infamous massacre of the town of Kalavryta by Nazi troops on December 13th, 1943.
Year of production : 2021 Director(s) : Nicholas DIMITROPOULOS Writer(s) : Dimitrios KATSANTONIS Cast : Max Von SYDOW, Alice KRIGE, Martin LAER, Astrid ROOS, Danae SKIADI, Nikolas PAPAGIANNIS, Tomas ARANA Producer(s) : Stylianos COTIONIS (Foss Productions S.A.), Dimitrios KATSANTONIS
"Echoes of the Past" is a topical, ripped-from-the-headlines, fictional drama, inspired in part by a true event, the infamous massacre of the town of Kalavryta by Nazi troops on December 13th, 1943. The story is being told through a series of flashbacks as Nikolaos Andreou, an acclaimed writer dying of cancer, poignantly narrates his personal experience as a young child to Caroline Martin, a top-notch lawyer representing Germany's Federal government on the recently filled Greek WWII reparations claims. The two characters each harboring its own prejudices, beliefs, and life's traumas are brought together by a divisive past that was meant to keep them apart. Their fateful meeting in the town of Kalavryta, a place still marked by the tragedy of old, will open the path to an arduous journey through a dark chapter in human history and have a profound effect on both as they struggle, together as well as each in its own way, to understand and come to terms with history's enduring lessons and deep scars. The terminus will find the two characters realizing the long-sought closure they desperately needed and embracing the hope they were searching for.
Country(ies) : GREECE