Behind the closed doors Europe, a man is trying for six months to save his country. A Greek tragedy in modern times with former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. The trailer of the film “Adults In The Room” was released, just hours before the official world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, August 31.
The film has the signature of director Kostas Gavras and is based on Varoufakis’ book “Adults in the Room – My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment.” The book and the film feature Varoufakis’ point of view on the tough negotiations between Greece and Europe in the first half of 2015.
The negotiations aiming to manage the Greek debt crisis. At the end of the European blackmail, the Greek -left-wing government was forced to implement capital control and sign a third bailout agreement, while Varoufakis had to resign.
Video: Trailer
The film features Greek actors Alexandros Bourdoumis (left) in the role of then prime minister Alexis Tsipras and Christos Loulis (right) in the role of Yanis Varoufakis.
The film will have its Greek premiere at the closing ceremony of the 25th Athens International Film Festival on 28. September 2019, in the presence of the director and the cast.
At the Venice Film Festival, 86-year-old Costas Gavras will be honored with the Award “Jaeger Lecoultre – Glory to the filmmaker”.
According to the director of the Venice Festival, Alberto Barbera, there are many reasons why Costas Gavras is one of the great contemporary filmmakers. In particular because “he has managed to turn politics into an interesting subject, one that, like everything else, concerns not only the initiated or the few but also the general public, for using all possible media to to reach as many viewers as possible,” Barbera noted. Gavras is not only a self-styled “political director” but also a director who, through his faith in peace and democracy, has managed to express public concern with easily understood means. “If we fell asleep, his cinema awakens us, and if we lose hope, his films make us find it again,” the director of the Venice Festival stressed.
See also:
Adults in the Room – Film shooting in Athens
Varoufakis, Schaeuble & Co: The cast of film Adults in the Room
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WE ALL HAD ENOUGH of naricsistic men holding on their one chairs of glory and thinking that what they now say matters. This is boring and unimportant. Yanis if you want to be a celeb there a re cheaper ways and not ones that the greeks pay. Your audacity sucks and shame on Gavras for stooping so low.
about “floor” single comment:
What this person is advocating is NOT learning from the past. NOT knowing anything is .
It IS important and IS NOT boring. And as far as YV been a “celebrity”, he has spoken/written what he has lived and the “behind closed doors” behaviors of men/women of power is of utter importance to everybody concerned about the future.
People today seem a bit lazy with regards to reading and searching deeper as to who is doing what and why and how all these things impact whole countries, regions and the world. I call BS to “floor”.
Video/film is a good way to transmit these events to all people, younger ones, students, adults and our elders.