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To Gramma apo to Charleroi

The Letter from Charleroi
Lettre de Charleroi
Lambros Liaropoulos
1965 Greece 12 minutes Greek

Liaropoulos, who studied at the Idhec and was assistant to Henry Langlois, takes a personal view of the plight of Greek immigrant miners. Settled in Belgium, they can afford material goods but cannot rid themselves of the nostalgia for their homeland. Using a letter that a miner sends his mother as a narrative pretext, the film gives us a taste of what life was like for these people, who were doubly marginalised as workers and as foreigners.

Editing :
Antonis Tempos
Sound :
Spyros Konstantinidis
Photography :
Stavros Hasapis
Production :
Lambros Liaropoulos
Print source :
Cinémathèque de Grèce - Greek Film Archive

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