Goodnight Socrates
Identifier
F.2025-11-0001
Date Of Production
1962
Abstract
"Kali Nihta, Socrates" ("Good Night, Socrates") is a story-documentary film about the destruction of a small Greek community in Chicago to make way for urban renewal. As the film was being shot, Chicago's Greektown was being razed to make space for the Kennedy Expressway and the new campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago. It captures the real-life destruction of buildings and culture as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy of Greek descent.
Description
The film was made by Maria Moraites and Stuart Hagmann, who had recently graduated from Northwestern University, with a grant from the North Shore Film Society. It went on to win awards internationally, including the Targa Leone di San Marco for Best Narrative Short Film at the Venice Biennale's 13th Venice International Documentary Film Festival.
Format
16mm
Extent
1,300 feet
Color
B&W
Sound
Optical
Reel/Tape Number
1/1
Language Of Materials
English
Element
Print
Genre
Form
Subject
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Main Credits
Moraites, Maria (is director)
Hagmann, Stuart (is director)
Additional Credits
Moraites, Maria (is writer)
Moraites, Maria (is cinematographer)
Hagmann, Stuart (is cinematographer)
Hagmann, Stuart (is contributor)
Brown, Mooyeen (music)
Strachan, Mary (is writer)
Participants And Performers
Mitchell, Charles (is actor)
Moraites, Maria (is actor)
Coleris, John (is actor)
Sterne, Richard (is narrator)
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