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LETTER TO THEO

LETTRE À THÉO

By Elodie LÉLU

Documentary - Completed 2018

Lettre à Théo is the story of my return to filmmaker Théo Angelopoulos’ Greece: a Greece battered by an interminable economic crisis, overwhelmed by a constant influx of migrants, yet still, despite everything, passionately fighting to preserve its dignity.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- BELGIUM, GREECE
- Languages
- FRENCH, GREEK, ENGLISH, DARI
- Duration
- 63 mn
- Director(s)
- Elodie LÉLU
- Producer(s)
- Isabelle TRUC (IOTA PRODUCTION), Fenia COSSOVITSA (BLONDE S.A.)
- Synopsis
- The filmmaker Théo Angelopoulos died on January 24th, 2012, knocked down by a motorbike on the set of his final film. He was surrounded by his team, of which I was a member.
  In this unfinished film, he was telling the destinies of the victims of the Greek crisis. Ironically, the ambulance supposed to come to his rescue broke down because budgetary restrictions had made it impossible to maintain the vehicle. The crisis itself killed Théo.
  In a letter addressed to him in the form of a film, I return to Greece. The list of victims of the crisis has only grown longer, this destitution echoing another that Théo had sensed was coming: that of the massive arrival of refugees who find themselves trapped in Greece by the closure of the borders.
  Yet citizen resistance is being organized and fights every day to bring those in danger of obliteration out of the shadows.