Escape From Alcatraz
When: Wednesday, June 28th | 21:30
Where: Pedestrian precinct of Dionysiou Areopagitou str. (across the Acropolis Museum) | Free entrance
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, Larry Hankin
Runtime: 112'
Year of Production: 1979
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek
The glorious period of the 1970s may have belonged to the talented youth that brought with it a new batch of filmmakers, but a veteran of the American screen is credited with one of the most exciting films of that decade. An imposing protagonist of measured phrases and marble figure, Clint Eastwood makes viewers participate in a riveting struggle for survival behind bars and a frantic flight to freedom, based on true events and filmed in such a way so as not to let the audience catch their breath. Thanks to Don Siegel's unmistakable sense of pacing and narrative solidity, the ideal male cast and the power of the true story itself, this is the best "Escape" in the history of cinema and also one of the most successful box office films of the ‘70s. Loukas Katsikas
