EDUART
Greece, Germany, North Macedonia, Albania – 2006 – Color – 104’
Direction: Angeliki Antoniou | Screenplay: Angeliki Antoniou | Cinematography: Jürgen Jürges | Editing: Takis Giannopoulos | Music: Kostas Christides, Minos Matsas | Cast: Eshref Durmishi, André Hennicke, Ndriçim Xhepa, Ermela Teli, Manos Vakousis | Production: Angeliki Antoniou, Kostas Lambropoulos, Jost Hering
Eduart, a young man raised in a cruel and oppressive family environment, leaves Albania with the dream of becoming a rock star and living a better life. His reckless character leads him to commit a murder in Athens. Because of an old robbery he gets imprisoned in Albania under the harshest conditions. Eduart, assisting the German doctor of the prison, learns to feel sympathy for others and guilt for his crime.
*The film won ten awards at the 47th Thessaloniki Film Festival, including Best Film and Best Director.
*It is the only Greek film to have been awarded the Golden Antigone Prize at the Cinemed - Mediterranean Film Festival in Montpellier in 2007.
