1968 Trailer

Sunday, April 21 at 3pm at MoMI

Directed by Tassos Boulmetis

2018 |93 mins
In Greek with English subtitles

With Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Stelios Mainas, Errikos Litsis, Ieroklis Michailidis, Giorgos Mitsikostas, Vasiliki Troufakou, Themis Panou, Antonis Antoniou.

On April 4, 1968, an epic basketball game between the Greek AEK team and Slavia Prague, against all odds, gave Greece its first European Cup, a Guinness world record for the largest attendance at a basketball game (80,000 in the Panathenaic Stadium), and a victory that is still talked about. More than just a thrilling David and Goliath story, acclaimed director Tassos Boulmetis uses this historic sporting event to create a docudrama that reveals the fascinating personal and political histories that came to play on the court that night against a backdrop of upheaval that rocked the world in 1968.

Nominated for five Hellenic Film Academy Awards, including Best Film

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