The Last Night / La Nuit Dernière

Direction: Giorgos Gikapeppas / Yorgos Gkikapeppas
Script: Giorgos Gikapeppas / Yorgos Gkikapeppas
Director of Photography: Vassilis Mourikis / Vasilis Mourikis
Editing/Edit: Giorgos Argyropoulos / Yorgos Argyropoulos
Producer/Production: Vicky Nikolaou, COSMOTE TV / Vicky Nikolaou, COSMOTE TV
Country of Production/Country: Greece / Greece
Duration: 83'
Production Year/Year: 2020
Language/Language: Greek, French, English, Italian, German/ Greek, French, English, Italian, German
Subtitles/Subtitles: Greek / English

Synopsis:

Nafplio 1831. Count Ioannis Kapodistrias, a top European diplomat and first governor of free Greece, has been alone for the last twelve hours before his assassination. The man, who took over a country destroyed to build a state from scratch, is attacked by English newspapers and death threats. That night, the faces that marked his life come to life in his memory, rewriting his history and the dramatic beginning of the newly established Greece.

Nafplio 1831. Count Ioannis Kapodistrias, a leading European diplomat and the first governor of free Greece, is alone for the last twelve hours before his assassination. The man who took over a devastated country to build a state from scratch is attacked by English newspapers and threatened with death. That night, the people who marked his life come to life in his memory, rewriting his history and the dramatic beginning of the newly formed Greece.

Director's/Biography Biography:

Giorgos Gikapeppas is twice awarded the Fipresci Prize for his first film The City of Children and for his second film Silent. He was born in Athens where he lives and works. He studied film directing at the Lykourgos Stavrakos School. He worked in film, theater and teleorasis, directing films, documentaries, theatrical performances, tv series and commercials. He has also been honored with the Best Film Award of the Panhellenic Union of Critics and with 3 Awards of the Greek Film Academy for his first film The City of Children.

Yorgos Gkikapeppas has been twice awarded with the International Film Critics Award (Fipresci), once for each of his two features (for his debute film The City of Children and for his second feature Silent). He was born in Athens, the city he still lives in. He studied cinema at the Likourgos Stavrakos Film School. He has worked in cinema, theatre and television directing films, documentaries, stage plays, TV series and commercials. He also won the Best Film Award (Greek Federation of Film Critics) and 3 Hellenic Film Academy Awards for The City of Children.

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