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WISHBONE

WISHBONE

Penny Panayotopoulou
GR/FR/DE/CY, 2024, 123 Min

A decent person under pressure: 25-year-old Costas has recently started working as a security guard in a state hospital. The staff there are astonished that he does not share their cynical views of staff shortages, bureaucracy and patient deaths. He soon experiences for himself where the cynicism comes from…

#feature #drama #family

Performance

2024-11-07 | 16:00
Stadthalle
2024-11-08 | 21:30
Obenkino

When his brother collapses, the doctors shrug and say that it would have been better not to come to this hospital. His brother dies, and Costas now has to take care not only of his little daughter, but also of the debts he left behind. He gets involved in shady dealings, accuses doctors of malpractice they aren’t guilty of, and finds himself faced with a moral dilemma when a doctor who is also the victim of false accusations turns to him for help. Penny Panayiotopoulou's social drama captures chilling urban landscapes and claustrophobic interiors with cinematic sophistication - living spaces full of social fault lines in which the protagonist loses control of himself and is only able, with no small effort, to maintain his belief in the good in people. A documentary-like parable that describes where a society drifts to when the basic infrastructure crumbles and everyone takes responsibility for only one thing: themselves.

Text: Bernd Buder

07.11.2024 | 16:00 | Stadhalle (original version with English subtitles + simultaneous translation into German)

08.11.2024 | 21:30 | Obenkino (original version with English subtitles)

Drehbuch
Kallia Papadaki and Penny Panayotopoulou
Kamera
Dimitris Katsaitis
Ton
Sound recordist: KONSTANTINOS KITTOU Sound design and editing: GIORGOS MIKROGIANNAKIS, BRUNO TARRIÈRE
Schnitt
Petar Markovic
Ausstattung
Giorgos Georgiou
Musik
NIKOLAS ANADOLIS
Darsteller
GIANNIS KARAMPAMPAS, KONSTANTINOS AVARIKIOTIS, ALEXANDRA
SAKELLAROPOULOU, ELENA MAVRIDOU, GAROUFALINA KONTOZOU, MYRTO ALIKAKI
Produzent
Penny Panyotopoulou, Thanassis Karathanos, Martin Hampel, Birgit Kemner
Produktion
P.P. Productions, Pallas Film, Manny Films, Felony Films
Penny Panayotopoulou

Penny Panayotopoulou - Penny  Panayotopoulou  is  a Greek  film maker, screen writer, and producer. She holds a LLB in law from University of Athens and a degree in film and photo arts from the Polytechnic of Central London.  Some of her more notable works include: Hard Goodbyes: My Father  (2002), which premiered in the 55th Locarno Film Festival, was awarded the Bronze Leopard for Best Actor, and later participated in numerous international festivals; September (2013), which premiered in the official competition of the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to critical acclaim, was nominated for six Hellenic Film Academy Awards and won the award for best leading actress; and  the  documentary series, The Magic in People which run for many years on Greek TV and consists of hour-long intimate narratives of individuals defined by the bereavement.

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