THE LITTLE DOLPHINS/ Ta Delfinakia Tou Ambracicou

Director: Dinos Demopoulos

Cast: Stavros Doyakos, Constantina Alevra, Spyros Pantazis, Nikitas Chronis, Constantina Andriopoulou, Alexandros Rigas and Christos Zorbas

In a small seaside village in Greece, in the years between the two world wars, Petros and Anthoula (he is eight and she is seven) are enjoying the summer holidays. With the spontaneity and innocence of the young they gradually discover the miracle of the world that surrounds them. They reach out to touch the stars and talk to the animals, to play hide-and-seek with the birds and frolic in the water.

They also begin to utter the first verses of the eternal song of love, even if they cannot yet understand the words. But this miraculous celebration of life suddenly darkens when, quite unexpectedly, the two children find themselves face to face with a solitary, sick boy their own age, a social outcast because he has tuberculosis. They decide to react, breaking down the barriers of prejudice and opening bright pathways to life that are quite inconceivable to grownups. Dinos Demopoulos returns to Greek films after a long absence, adapting his own award-winning children's book. The result is charming.

Dinos Demopoulos is a film and stage director and writer.
Demopoulos' films include:

Society Zero Hour (1965)

Concert for Machine Guns (1966)

Fever on the Asphalt (1967)

He has also directed for the stage.

In 1976 he won First Prize at the PanEuropean Torino Festival for his documentary Greece and the Sea.

In 1987 he won the Academy of Athens Award for his novel If all the Kids in the World.

In 1989 his novel The Little Dolphins was listed by the International Jury of the University of Padova on the honour roll as the best book of the year. It is on this book that his film made, in 1993, is based.