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The Greek Cinema Club is organising a screening of the first and only Greek animated feature film From the Earth to the Moon at Utopia cinema on Tuesday 13 March at 19:00 and Wednesday 14 March at 21:00.

The film, the first of its kind, will be screened in the original Greek version with English subtitles. This will be followed by a Q&A session with the director Angelos Spartalis.

In America, 100 years before the moon landing of Apollo 11, the bellicose bemoan their fates because the federal war is over and they have all fallen into inaction. They are reminiscent of the glorious past and feel uncomfortable with the mournful clothes remaining unused in the closets and the green grass and the cotton growing back in the fields, as Verne writes characteristically.

At that exact moment, the president of the Gun Club, Impey Barbicane, provides the solution by announcing his plan to fire a cannonball to the Moon, an act that also constitutes the first substantial contact of man with the satellite of the Earth and that would glorify the United States of America all over the world.

The film is 86-minutes-long and is suitable for children. It features the voices of Manos Vakousis, Aleksandros Logothetis, Stratos Tzortzoglou and Dimitris Starovas, and song performances by Dionysis Savopoulos and Psarantonis.