Apartment in Athens

Apartment in Athens (2012)

Appartamento ad Atene

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...

Date of release
2012-09-28
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Drama
Director
Ruggero Dipaola

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Apulia

Apartment in Athens is a 2011 Italian war drama film produced, co-written and directed by Ruggero Dipaola, in his feature film debut. It is an adaptation of the 1945 novel of the same name by Glenway Wescott.

Production

The film was shot in 2010; the apartment interiors were reconstructed at Cinecittà, while the exteriors were filmed in Gravina in Puglia—with the historic center transformed into Athens' Plaka district—and at the edge of the ravine and within the Alta Murgia National Park.

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