Arlette Baumann

short film that was shown at Thessaloniki International Film Festival, in 1964

A short film about a french tourist that discovers a side of the city of Athens that is not described in the tourist guides. Best short film for the 3rd Thessaloniki Film Festival. Directed by Kollatos Dimitris, 1962, 11'.

The relationship of a father with his autistic child, who does not want to put in an institution, despite the reactions of his relatives.

The Greek director, Dimitris Kollatos, has not forgotten his delicate muse, lifelong companion, and beloved French actress wife, Arlette Baumann.

Under the presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, a peasant family commits suicide, five people torture a young girl, and children die for lack of hospitals.

Alexander is a young man who dies of leukemia at the age of twenty-six. At the hospital, his mother, his wife, and his friends stand by his side. Trying to react to the grim idea of his impending death, he asks his wife to make love to him. His memories take him back to his early adolescence and his first sexual encounter in a brothel.