Park (2016)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | park |
| Country of production |
Greece , Poland |
| original language |
English , Polish |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sofia Exarchou |
| script | Sofia Exarchou |
| production | Christos V. Konstantakopoulos , Amanda Livanou |
| music | Alexander Voulgaris |
| camera | Monika Lenczewska |
| cut | Sofia Exarchou, Yorgos Mavropsaridis |
| occupation | |
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Park is a film drama directed by Sofia Exarchou that premiered on September 9, 2016 at the Toronto International Film Festival .
action
The Olympic Village in Athens , where athletes from all over the world were still preparing for the Summer Olympics in 2004 , has been forgotten by many more than ten years later and is abandoned and decaying between some also no longer used sports facilities. Only a few working class families are housed in this almost deserted place after the buildings were released as apartments after the end of the games. The residents also include a group of young people whose playground has always been ruins. The oldest of the group is 22 year old Anna. Together with the 17-year-old Dimitris, with whom she starts a relationship, she often visits a posh resort , which they reach by swimming across the sea. Here you can see how the rich, foreign tourists live.
background
While the Olympic Village in Athens was still chic and colorful at the 2004 Summer Olympics , it gradually fell into disrepair in the following years and became a ghost town because the money for maintenance was lacking.
production
Staff and cast
It is in the park to the feature film debut of Sofia Exarchou . She also wrote the script for the film. Exarchou was born in Athens and studied at the Polytechnic, later at the Stavrakos Film School and also acting at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York.
For the young actors involved, the film was the first or second engagement they had received: Dimitris Kitsos took on the role of Dimitris, Dimitra Vlagopoulou the role of Anna and Enuki Gvenatadze the role of Markos. The Danish actor Thomas Bo Larsen plays Jens in the film.
publication
The film premiered on September 9, 2016 as part of the Toronto International Film Festival and was screened as a competition film at the San Sebastián Film Festival from September 16, 2016 . The film was presented at the Warsaw International Film Festival from October 9, 2016 and at the London Film Festival from October 13, 2016 . The film was officially released in Greek cinemas on March 9, 2017. In June 2017 the film was presented at the Munich Film Festival .
Exarchous film project was presented at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2015 , where the film in preparation was awarded the Works-in-Progress Prize .
Awards (selection)
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2015
- Awarded the Works-in-Progress Prize
San Sebastian International Film Festival 2016
- Nomination as a competition film
- Awarded the Premio Kutxa-Nuevos Directores ( Sofia Exarchou )
Stockholm International Film Festival 2016
- Nomination for the bronze horse in the category Best Film (Sofia Exarchou)
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2016
- Award as Best Actress ( Dimitra Vlagopoulou )
Toronto International Film Festival 2016
- Nomination for Best Film for the International Critics' Award
San Francisco International Film Festival 2017
- Nomination for the Golden Gate Award New Directors Prize - Narrative films (Sofia Exarchou)
Créteil International Women's Film Festival 2017
- Award for best debut film (Special Mention for Sofia Exarchou)
Web links
- Park in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Sports facilities in Athens: Olympic ruins In: SPIEGEL ONLINE, August 8, 2014.
- ^ Olympic ruins in Athens In: kurier.at, August 13, 2014.
- ↑ Park In: sansebastianfestival.com. Retrieved August 31, 2016.
- ↑ Park In: wff.pl. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
- ↑ Maximilian Von Thun: #LFF 2016: Park Review ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: cine-vue.com, October 13, 2016.
- ↑ Films & Events ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: filmfest-muenchen.de. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
- ↑ Alissa Simon: Greek Film 'Park' Wins Works-in-Progress Prize at Karlovy Vary Film Festival In: Variety, July 7, 2015.
- ↑ Palmarés de la 64 edición del Festival de Cine de San Sebastián In: eitb.eus, September 24, 2016.
- ↑ Festival Competition ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: sffilm.org. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
