From the title of a popular song by Mitropanos, “A life I remember you leaving”, Frida Liappa created in 1977 her award-winning film of the same name, a love story in Post-colonial Athens, between a left-wing journalist and an actor who has left the theater.

The film will be presented for the first time in a digitally restored 4K copy on December 16 at the Film Gallery of Greece at 20.00, with free admission for the public. It will also be available online from 12/16 at 21:30 until 12/19 at 21:30 GMT+2 (accessible from all over Europe) at online.tainiothiki.gr.

The screening is a tribute by the Film Archive of Greece, the director and collaborator of Frida Liappa Kyriakos Angelakou and the Short Drama Film Festival to the courageous Greek director, on the 29th anniversary of her untimely death (11/11/1994) in age 46 years.

Politics, the Left, the creator’s artistic impasse, theater, male-female relations, with the man always leaving, as the title of the film (and the song) says, contains all the elements of her personal mythology Fridas Liappa, from Tsitsanis to Raymond Chandler, sharply delineating a specific generation and a specific era: that of the post-colonial period.

At the same time, it is a penetrating portrait of a new generation of Greek professionals who fought with passion for politics as well as for their lives. Starring Dimitris Poulikakos, Nena Menti, Kostas Baladimas, Irini Koumarianou, Stamatis Fasoulis and Yvonne Maltezou. Also, Giorgos Michaelidis and Betty Arvaniti. The director co-wrote the script with Giorgos Korras.

The film “A life I remember you leaving” won the Second Prize at the Thessaloniki Festival, as well as the award of the Panhellenic Film Critics Association (PEKK).

Frida Liappa (1948-1994) is the creator who with her work and personality “invaded” a preeminently male-dominated space.

He was born in Messina. In 1968, while studying philology in Athens, he was arrested and imprisoned by the dictatorship and fled to London, where he studied cinema. He was a member of the editorial board of the magazine “Contemporary Cinema”. He directed the short films: After Forty Days (1972), A Life I Remember to Go Away (1977), Apetaxamen (1980), as well as the feature films The Roads of Love Are Night (1981), It Was a Quiet Death (1986) ), The years of the great heat (1991), as well as several television documentaries, as part of the ERT show “Behind the scenes”. He published several poetry collections, short stories and a novel. She is considered one of the most important Greek creators – she succeeded in infusing realism with a poetic perspective.

The screening of the digitally restored copy at the Film Library of Greece takes place within the framework of the A Season of Classic Films program – an initiative of ACE (Association des Cinémathèques Européennes) with the support of the Creative Europe MEDIA program.

With the donation of the Society of Social Work and Culture.