Kali Nihta Socrates.

"Kali Nihta, Socrates" ("Good Night, Socrates") is a story-documentary film about the destruction of a small Greek community in Chicago to make way for urban renewal. As the film was being shot, Chicago's Greektown was being razed to make space for the Kennedy Expressway and the new campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago. It captures the real-life destruction of buildings and culture as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy of Greek descent.

Credits

Maria Moraites (director); Stuart Hagmann (director); Maria Moraites (writer); Maria Moraites (cinematographer); Stuart Hagmann (cinematographer); Stuart Hagmann (contributor); Mooyeen Brown (music); Mary Strachan (writer); Charles Mitchell (actor); Maria Moraites (actor); John Coleris (actor); Richard Sterne (narrator)

Copyright

Complete catalog record
Kali Nihta Socrates. Stuart Hagmann. 32 Min., Sd., B&W, 16 Mm. © Stuart Hagmann & Maria Moraites; 17jan62; Lu3193.

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, format, color, sound, catalog record, copyright
  2. Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video