''Plato's Academy'' ( el, Ακαδημία Πλάτωνος) is a 2009 Greek-German comedy-drama film directed by

Filippos Tsitos Filippos Tsitos (born 1966) is a Greek film and television director. He grew up in Exarchia and Chalandri, moving to Berlin, Germany in 1991, where he studied directing at the German Academy of Cinema and Television. He has won the Silver She ...

, starring

Antonis Kafetzopoulos Antonis Kafetzopoulos ( el, Αντώνης Καφετζόπουλος; born 13 October 1951) is a Greek actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1980. He has won two Hellenic Film Academy Awards for his roles in the films ''Plato's Academ ...

, Anastas Kozdine, Titika Saringouli, , Kostas Koronaios, Panayiotis Stamatakis and Maria Zorba.

Cast

as Stavros * Anastas Kozdine as Marenglen * Titika Saringouli as Harikleia * as Nikos * Kostas Koronaios as Argyris * Panayiotis Stamatakis as Thymios * Maria Zorba as Dina * Platonas Brakoulias * Maria Stefou * Konstadina Tzortzi * Nikos Zoiopoulos

Release

The film premiered at the 2009

Locarno Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, sh ...

and was a finalist for the 2010 Lux Prize.

Reception

Joseph Proimakis of ' wrote that the film "mercilessly bites into one of the darkest traits of any modern multicultural society and turns it on its head, all the while holding onto its humanistic sensibilities and maintaining a delicate balance between the universal social commentary and the specificity of the hero’s story." Kirk Honeycutt of ''

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'' wrote that the film offers "wry wisdom and steady laughs in its acute observation about a formerly heterogeneous society’s confrontation with otherness." Jay Weissberg of ''

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'' called the film a "weak comedy with few laughs and little insight."

References

External links

* * {{rotten-tomatoes, platos-academy, Plato's Academy Greek comedy-drama films German comedy-drama films 2009 comedy-drama films