A song for Argyris
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A song for Argyris |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stefan Haupt |
| script | Stefan Haupt |
| music | Tomas Korber, Jorgos Stergiou |
| camera | Patrick Lindenmaier |
| cut | Stefan Kälin |
A song for Argyris is a documentary by Stefan Haupt .
content
The film describes the life of Argyris Sfountouris , who at the age of just under four lost his parents and 30 other relatives in the Distomo massacre . Argyris Sfountouris came to the Pestalozzi Children's Village in Trogen, Switzerland. Years later he did his doctorate in mathematics and astrophysics at the ETH Zurich . He then taught at high schools in Zurich, translated Greek poets such as Nikiforos Vrettakos into German and later worked for several years, also with the Swiss Disaster Relief Corps , as a development aid worker in Somalia, Nepal and Indonesia. During the dictatorship of the colonels from 1967 to 1974 he supported the resistance and edited the Propylaea magazine for Greece .
Awards
- 2007: Audience Award at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
- 2007: Nomination for the Swiss Film Award (Best Documentary)
literature
- Alexandra Stäheli: Elegy and misery: “A song for Argyris” - a documentary by Stefan Haupt. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 10, 2006.
- Laura Daniel: A song for Argyris (Stefan Haupt). Cinema.
Web links
- A song for Argyris at Swiss Films
- A song for Argyris at Fontana Film
- Meeting at The Other Film