Apartment in Athens (2012)
6.4(9)1h 35mSeptember 28, 2012
Ruggero Dipaola
Director
Luca de Benedittis, Ruggero Dipaola, Heidrun Schleef
Writers
Rate
Diary
Overview
Athens, 1943. An apartment is requisitioned to provide accommodation for a German officer. In the apartment live the Helianos, a middle-aged couple who used to be well-off. He is an intellectual, moderate and patient. She is an anxious housewife. They have a ten-year old son who is filled with melodramatic revenge fantasies and a twelve-year old daughter. With the arrival of Captain Kalter everything is wiped out. The methodical, ascetic, cruel Kalter is a military god who inflicts terror. And the Helianos give in, submissive. They are now servants, with no identity other than their acquiescence...
