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FIRST CYPRIOT ASTRONAUT

By Stavros PAMBALIS

Comedy - Development 2020

Phivos has early onset Altzheimers and his life is slowly slipping away from him. But as a child he’s always had a dream to go into space. So he embarkes on his last minute journey with the unlikliest companions to become the first Cypriot Astronaut, before his time runs out.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM, CYPRUS, GERMANY
- Languages
- GREEK, ENGLISH
- Budget
- N/A
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Stavros PAMBALIS
- Writer(s)
- Stavros PAMBALIS
- Producer(s)
- Bernhard PUCHER (Iron Box Films), Raimund BERENS (Iron Box Films)
- Synopsis
- January 2004, three months before the referendum on a contentious UN plan to solve Cyprus’ separation; Phivos’ is diagnosed with acute, early-onset Alzheimer’s and kicked out by his wife.
  Living back home with his mother and close to the UN imposed Green Line, Phivos struggles to keep a grip on the present and decides to redeem his own past while he still can. With the help of his brother in law, Antonakis, a disillusioned army major with a healthy side business selling army flares to football fans.
  Phivos steals the Vostok, an old soviet space
  capsule. 40 years after his initial plan, Phivos starts to construct a space rocket of his own design, the APHRODITE I
- Beginning of shooting
- Mar 01, 2013