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Ein Lied für Argyris

A Song For Argyris
Cantique pour Argyris

Switzerland, November 2006
FILM, Documentary, 105 min.

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directed by
Stefan Haupt
Written by
Stefan Haupt
Status
In distribution
Website
www.fontanafilm.ch/DOKFILME/argyris/index.html

In 1944, four-year-old Argyris Sfountouris survived a brutal massacre committed by the German occupying forces, in which he lost his parents and thirty more relatives. The Greek orphan was sent to the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in Trogen, Switzerland and obtained a Ph.D in maths and astrophysics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. Now a 66-year-old man of winning charm and melancholy cheerfulness, Argyris has forever been tackling the horror he had to go through as a little boy. He has not tried to come to terms with it emotionally. Rather, he has tried to learn to live with it and to do his utmost to prevent it from happening again.
An intimate, reflective film about the quest for peace and the almost insurmountable difficulties linked to true reconciliation – an open-ended journey.

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World Premiere
November 2006
Original Version
French, Swiss-German, Greek, German (german subtitles),  colour, 35mm, 105 min.
Production
Fontana Film GmbH, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, SRG SSR
Producer
directed by
Stefan Haupt
Written by
Stefan Haupt
Cinemato­graphy
Patrick Lindenmaier
Editing
Stefan Kälin
Re-Recording Mix
Guido Keller
Music
Tomas Korber, Jorgos Stergiou
Location Sound Mix
Martin Witz

Cast

Argyris Sfountouris
Mikis Theodorakis
Arthur Bill

World Sales / World Rights

World Rights
Fontana Film GmbH

Worldwide Distribution

Austria
Polyfilm Verleih Distribution
Germany
Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH Distribution
Greece
Filmtrade Ltd Distribution
Spain
Parallel 40 Distribution
Switzerland
Frenetic Films Distribution

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