‘‘Pavlos Zannas’’ Olympion Cine Hall
Listed six-floor cinema complex from the nineteen-fifties, home base of a major film festival.
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This guide to the Olympion on Aristotelous Square in Thessaloniki opens on the night of the twentieth of September, nineteen sixty, when a new Week of Greek Cinema filled this hall. It follows the academic Pavlos Zannas and the intellectuals around him, the city's trade fair standing in the background, and the young stars handed the first prizes. Best heard facing the facade from the square.
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