Ein Lied für Argyris
A Song For Argyris
Cantique pour Argyris
Switzerland, November 2006
FILM,
Documentary,
105 min.
- directed by
- Stefan Haupt
- Written by
- Stefan Haupt
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- www.fontanafilm.ch/DOKFILME/argyris/index.html
In 1944, four-year-old Argyris Sfountouris survived a brutal massacre committed by the German occupying forces, in which he lost his parents and thirty more relatives. The Greek orphan was sent to the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in Trogen, Switzerland and obtained a Ph.D in maths and astrophysics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. Now a 66-year-old man of winning charm and melancholy cheerfulness, Argyris has forever been tackling the horror he had to go through as a little boy. He has not tried to come to terms with it emotionally. Rather, he has tried to learn to live with it and to do his utmost to prevent it from happening again.
An intimate, reflective film about the quest for peace and the almost insurmountable difficulties linked to true reconciliation – an open-ended journey.
credits
- World Premiere
- November 2006
- Original Version
- French, Swiss-German, Greek, German (german subtitles), colour, 35mm, 105 min.
- Production
- Fontana Film GmbH, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, SRG SSR
- Producer
- directed by
- Stefan Haupt
- Written by
- Stefan Haupt
- Cinematography
- Patrick Lindenmaier
- Editing
- Stefan Kälin
- Re-Recording Mix
- Guido Keller
- Music
- Tomas Korber, Jorgos Stergiou
- Location Sound Mix
- Martin Witz
Cast
Argyris Sfountouris
Mikis Theodorakis
Arthur Bill
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Fontana Film GmbH
Worldwide Distribution
- Austria
-
Polyfilm Verleih
Distribution
Release date: tba - Germany
-
Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH
Distribution
Release date: tba - Greece
-
Filmtrade Ltd
Distribution
Release date: tba - Spain
-
Parallel 40
Distribution
Release date: tba - Switzerland
-
Frenetic Films
Distribution
Release date: tba
Awards
(a selection)
- Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, Public Award 2007 (Winner)
- Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, ERT3 Publikumspreis 2007 (Winner)
Festivals
(a selection)
-
St. Petersburg, 3rd Film Festival "Time To Live" Saint-Petersburg
28.03.2008 - 06.04.2008 -
Kerala, 12th International Film Festival of Kerala
07.12.2007 - 15.12.2007 -
24. Festival de Cine de Bogotá
03.10.2007 - 11.10.2007 -
Sarajevo, 13th Sarajevo Film Festival
17.08.2007 - 25.08.2007 -
Locarno, 60. Festival internazionale del film Locarno
01.08.2007 - 11.08.2007 -
Los Angeles Greek Film Festival
14.06.2007 - 17.06.2007 -
16. Internationales Film Festival Innsbruck
05.06.2007 - 10.06.2007 -
Munich, 22. Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München
02.05.2007 - 10.05.2007 -
Kiev, 3rd Contact Ukrainian International Documentary Film Festival
14.04.2007 - 20.04.2007 -
Thessaloniki, 9th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
16.03.2007 - 25.03.2007
-
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
22.01.2007 - 28.01.2007