Kalavryta: People and Shadows

Through a minimal, academic form, with silences following the protagonists’ words, Elias Giannakakis’ breathtaking documentary bows to the object of its research. The people who lived the Massacre of Kalavryta and have forbid themselves to forget.

Synopsis

A documentary film about a trauma as deep as the holocaust of Kalavryta and the surrounding villages by the Germans in December 1943. A collective portrait of the survivors who are trying, 72 years now, to understand who they are and what really happened to them.