Uranya

Summer 1969, a small Greek provincial town. A group of boys faces a serious dilemma: spend their pooled savings on a television set so they can watch the moon landing, or go and see Uranya and settle a different curiosity entirely. In a country under the colonels, the priest, the grocer and everybody else has a firm position on the matter. Costas Kapakas is looking at what the night humanity reached the moon looked like from a town that size, weighing invention and desire on the same scale. It is a coming of age story that manages to be neither crude nor sentimental. Behind all of it, without any raised voices, sits the fact that the country was living through one of its tightest periods.