Following its sold-out World Premiere at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival, we are pleased to invite you to the first screening in Athens of the Docudrama “The students of the Umberto Primo”, which will take place on

Tuesday, March 29th at 6.30 pm

at the Greek Film Archive.  

FILM SYNOPSIS: In Thessaloniki, Greece, under Nazi occupation, 96 percent of the Jewish population was sent to concentration camps. This film documents the previously untold stories of some of the many young Jewish students attending the Italian school of Thessaloniki, Umberto Primo, who must put their hopes and dreams on hold and focus only on how they will survive. We recreate the stories, hopes, dreams, and ultimate fates of nine of these Jewish students. By recreating their stories, we also tell the story of the Holocaust in Greece.

The film is based on previously undiscovered archival material found by an Italian professor, and the testimonies of surviving protagonists.

 Production: Oneiro Company ~~ Co-Production: ERT, Cosmote TV  

Executive Production: Blacklight Productions

 Co-financed by the German Federal Foreign Office through funds from the German-Greek Future Fund, EKOME, the Italian Embassy in Athens, DESFA, the Italian Institute of Culture in Athens, Kickstarter, Lollo's, RFG and Fais Group.

 Please register by email at dance.oneiro@gmail.com until March 27th (first come, first served policy).