Sonia

Σόνια

The young Sonia, a sensitive soul and a dreamer, falls for the mature Tonio – a music teacher, married man, and father of a daughter. Over the course of a short but resplendent summer, before the teacher is to move abroad with his family, they are to have an intense affair that leaves its mark on them both. Abandoning the experimental approaches of his previous films, Kanellopoulos tells a simple love story in Sonia that disarms with its unfeigned tenderness. Set beside the substantial figure cut by Spyros Fokas, Antigoni Doudoumi fashions an unforgettable, ethereal Sonia who hides her sorrow behind a bitter-sweet smile, almost like an Ozu heroine. Sonia, Kanellopoulos’ final film, invites audiences to plunge – with all the innocence of childhood and the melancholy of adulthood – into their own frustrated desires.
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Direction: Takis Kanellopoulos
Script: Takis Kanellopoulos
Cinematography: Stamatis Tripos
Editing: Takis Kanellopoulos, Babis Alepis
Music: Yorgos Chatzinasios
Actors: Antigoni Doudoumi, Spyros Fokas, Kostas Lachas, Lina Lampraki, Kostas Mazis
Producers: Yorgos Kanellopoulos
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 1980
Duration: 75'
Contact: Yorgos Kanellopoulos, info@kanelamps.gr

Takis Kanellopoulos

Filmography

1960 Macedonian Wedding (short)
1961 Thassos (short)
1962 Glory Sky (fiction)
1966 Excursion (fiction)
1968 Interlude (fiction)
1969 Kastoria (short)
1972 The Last Spring (fiction)
1975 Memories of a Sunday (fiction)
1978 Romantic Note (fiction)
1980 Sonia (fiction)