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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1994 - 30 July.6 August

Sections & Films

THE LITTLE DOLPHINS

Category: Edition 1994

Synopsis
Set in the period between the two world wars in a seaside village in the bay of Amvrakikos. Two children, Petros (8 years old) and Anthoula (7 years old) spend their summer holidays. During a walk they discover in an isolated shack a boy who lives with his mother. He is rejected by the community because of tuberculosis. Petros and Anthoula become friends with the boy. They encounter the cruelty of the adults and they decide to resist.

Original Title Ta delfinakia tou Amvrakikou
Italian Title I Piccoli Delfini
Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 98'
Production Year 1993
Nationality Greece
Directed by Dinos Dimopoulos
Screenplay Dinos Dimopoulos
Main cast Konstadina Alevra, Konstantina Andriopoulou, Lambros Bavetas

 regista dinos dimopoulosDINOS DIMOPOULOS

Dinos Dimopoulos (22 August 1921) is a Greek actor, film director, screenwriter and theatre director. He directed 47 films between 1953 and 1993.
His 1959 film Astero was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1960 film Madalena was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. He wrote also some theatrical plays. He has won the best director award in Thessaloniki Film Festival for the film The Asphalt Fever.