Wednesday 04:45 am

by Alexis Alexiou

Athens, Greece, today: 32 hours in the life of Stelios Dimitrakopoulos, a small time night-club owner in Athens, who struggles to salvage his bankrupt business from the loan-sharks, as the city and the whole country go up in flames.

Germany/ Greece / Israel, 116 min.

Stelios is the owner of a Jazz Club in Athens. A few years ago, through the help of his former associate Vassos, Stelios received a business loan from the Romanian in order to renovate his club. In 2010, the recession finds Stelios on the brink of bankruptcy unable to repay the loan. The Romanian meets with Stelios and gives him one day to come up with a solution. Trying to buy time for his old friend, Vassos asks Stelios to meet up with Omar, an Albanian strip-bar owner who also owes money to the Romanian.

Omar and Stelios’ lives will soon cross in the most unexpected of ways. In a whirlpool of adultery, drug abuse, violence, guilt and self-deceit, Stelios has only a few hours left to save his club, salvage his crumbling marriage, battle the mafia loan-sharks, baptize his employee’s kid and show up at school to receive his son’s report card as a proper parent.

Actor / Actress:	Role:
Stelios Mainas	Stelios
Dimitris Tzoumakis	Vassos
Mimi Branescou	The Romanian
Adam Bousdoukos	Driver
Giorgos Simeonidis	Omar
Maria Nafpliotou	Sophia (Stelio’s wife)
Christina Dendrinou	Natalia (mistress)
Nikolitsa Drizi	Agni (pole dancer)
V. Rokkos	Thanassis (Stelio’s brother)

Director	Alexis Alexiou
Author	Alexis Alexiou
Producer	Thanassis Karathanos, Kostas Lambropoulos, Talia Kleinhendler, Osnat Keren-Handelsman
Production	TWENTY TWENTY VISION, CL PRODUCTIONS, PIE FILMS
In Co-Production with	ZDF/Arte, Faliro House, Marni Films, NOVA
supported by	Eurimages Council of Europe, Greek Film Center, FFA, Israel Film Fund, Nerit – New Hellenic Radio Internet Television
Distribution	Neue Visionen
Director of Photography	Christos Karamanis
Editing	Andreas Wodraschke
Production Design	Penelope Valti
Music	Yiannis Veslemes

Worldwide release: Tribeca Film Festival 2015 – in competition

Jeonju Film Festival / South Korea
Los Angeles Greek Film Festival / USA
Voices – Vologda independent cinema from european screens festival/ Russia
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival / Czech Republic