{"id":4608,"date":"2026-08-31T11:32:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/event\/film-screening-nikos-koundouros-magic-city-at-doc-cafe\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T11:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:32:51","slug":"film-screening-nikos-koundouros-magic-city-at-doc-cafe","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/event\/film-screening-nikos-koundouros-magic-city-at-doc-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Screening: Nikos Koundouros&#039; Magic City at Doc Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udfa5 Magic City (1954)<br \/>\nDirected by Nikos Koundouros | Runtime: 80\u2032<br \/>\nOne of the landmark films of Greek neorealism opens Doc Cafe&#039;s screening program for September. In the poor Athenian neighborhood of Dourgouti in the 1950s, Kosmas, a truck driver struggling to pay off his vehicle, gets pulled into an illegal cigarette-smuggling scheme in search of quick money. When he tries to break free from the underworld, he finds himself facing a gang that means business. But he doesn&#039;t stand alone: the whole neighborhood, poor but proud, unites to shield him from the teeth of the &quot;magic&quot; \u2014 yet deceiving \u2014 city.<br \/>\nStarring: Giorgos Foundas, Margarita Papageorgiou, Stefanos Stratigos, Thanasis Vengos, Eva Brika, Mimis Fotopoulos, Andreas Doulos, Anestis Vlachos, Tasos Katrapas, Fanis Kampanis, Natassa Kalpidou, Charis Grigoriou, and Manos Katrakis<br \/>\nA landmark Koundouros film set against an Athens struggling to stay on its feet, and a neighborhood that reminds us solidarity is the only antidote to a city&#039;s cruelty.<br \/>\nJoin us for a trip to the magical \u2014 and so very real \u2014 Athens of the &#039;50s! \ud83c\udf7f\u2728<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":4607,"template":"","tags":[],"location":[],"event_category":[],"thematic_areas":[],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-4608","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/4608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4608"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4608"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=4608"},{"taxonomy":"thematic_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thematic_areas?post=4608"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}