Synopsis
With the German Occupation in Greece from 1941 to 1944 as a background, this film unfolds the love story between my father, an assistant professor at the mysterious German Scientific Institute of Athens – financed by the occupying power, Germany, but in reality a refuge for resistant students – and Nelly, a young student in Fine Arts. The film also traces the portrait of their friend Rudolf Fahrner, founder of the Institute, comrade of the Stauffenberg Brothers and one of the few conspirators of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, on 20 July 1944, that survived the repression that followed.Based on over thousand pages of handwritten letters, Letters from Athens is a polyphonic report of daily life under occupation – history of love and resistance.