Plato's Academy (film)

Plato's Academy (Greek: Ακαδημία Πλάτωνος) is a 2009 Greek-German comedy-drama film directed by Filippos Tsitos, starring Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Anastas Kozdine, Titika Saringouli, Giorgos Souxes [el], Kostas Koronaios, Panayiotis Stamatakis and Maria Zorba.^[1]

Plato's Academy
Directed by	Filippos Tsitos
Written by	Alexis Kardaras
Produced by	Thanassis Karathanos [el] Moriatis Konstantinos
Starring	Antonis Kafetzopoulos Anastas Kozdine Titika Saringouli Giorgos Souxes [el] Kostas Koronaios Panayiotis Stamatakis Maria Zorba
Cinematography	Polidefkis Kirlidis
Edited by	Dimitris Peponis
Music by	Stavros Markonis
Production companies	Pan Entertainment Twenty Twenty Vision
Release dates	13 August 2009 (2009-08-13) (Locarno Film Festival) 15 October 2009 (2009-10-15) (Greece)
Running time	103 minutes
Countries	Greece Germany
Languages	Greek Albanian German

Cast

• Antonis Kafetzopoulos as Stavros
• Anastas Kozdine as Marenglen
• Titika Saringouli as Harikleia
• Giorgos Souxes [el] as Nikos
• Kostas Koronaios as Argyris
• Panayiotis Stamatakis as Thymios
• Maria Zorba as Dina
• Platonas Brakoulias
• Maria Stefou
• Konstadina Tzortzi
• Nikos Zoiopoulos

Release

The film premiered at the 2009 Locarno Festival and was a finalist for the 2010 Lux Prize.^[2]

Reception

Joseph Proimakis of Cineuropa wrote that the film "mercilessly bites into one of the darkest traits of any modern multicultural society and turns it on its head, all the while holding onto its humanistic sensibilities and maintaining a delicate balance between the universal social commentary and the specificity of the hero’s story."^[2]

Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film offers "wry wisdom and steady laughs in its acute observation about a formerly heterogeneous society’s confrontation with otherness."^[3]

Jay Weissberg of Variety called the film a "weak comedy with few laughs and little insight."^[4]