Peppermint (1999 film) explained

Peppermint
Director:	Costas Kapakas
Music:	Panagiotis Kalatzopoulos
Cinematography:	Giannis Daskalothanasis
Editing:	Takis Yannopoulos
Runtime:	105 minutes
Country:	Greece
Language:	Greek

Peppermint is a 1999 Greek film directed by Costas Kapakas. It was Greece's submission to the 73rd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.^{[1] [2]}

Plot

Old schoolmates attend a reunion party, and an aviation engineer amongst them takes a trip down memory lane. As he reminisces about his childhood and his extraordinary relationship with his cousin Marina, the viewer looks on the lives of the protagonists, taking a glimpse of the Greek society between 1955 and 1973.^[3]

Cast

• Georges Corraface as Stefanos Karouzos
• Any Loulou as Alkistis Karouzou
• Alexandros Mylonas as Pavlos Karouzos
• Nikoletta Vlavianou as Ariadni
• Tasos Palatzidis as Michalakis
• Giorgos Gerontidakis-Sempetadelis as Stefanos Karouzos at 12
• Markella Pappa as Marina at 12

Reception

Awards

winner:^{[3] [4] [5]}

• 1999: Greek State Film Awards for Best Film
• 1999: Greek State Film Awards for Best Debut Director (Costas Kapakas)
• 1999: Greek State Film Awards for Best Screenplay (Costas Kapakas)
• 1999: Greek State Film Awards for Best Actress (Any Loulou)
• 1999: Greek State Film Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Tasos Palatzidis)
• 1999: Greek State Film Awards for Best Music (Panagiotis Kalatzopoulos)
• 1999: Greek State Film Awards for Best Editing
• 1999: Greek State Film Awards for Best Sound
• 1999: Greek State Film Awards for Best Make up

nominated:

• 1999: Thessaloniki International Film Festival for Golden Alexander
• 2000: Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Not Nominated)

See also

• Cinema of Greece
• List of submissions to the 73rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

Notes and References

1. Web site: Record 46 Countries in Race for Oscar. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2000-11-20. 2008-07-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080405192710/http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2000/00.11.20.a.html . 2008-04-05.
2. Web site: AMPAS Announces the Nominees for the 73rd Academy Awards . . 2008-07-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050212142938/http://www.indiewire.com/biz/biz_010213_OscarNoms.html . February 12, 2005 .
3. Web site: Peppermint. tainiothiki.gr. 1 February 2014. Greek.
4. Web site: Peppermint (1999). imdb. 31 January 2014.
5. Web site: award 1999. Thessaloniki International Film Festival. 4 January 2014.