The Chinese broadcaster CCTV made ​​a tribute to summer cinemas of Athens, a phenomenon that doesn’t come across as much nowhere and urges the Chinese tourists to visit them.
The broadcast mentions that there are currently operating approximately 90 summer cinemas of the 600 that were in action fifty years ago. Even so, however refers to them as It is something magical which lies within the Greek DNA.
The 86 year old Matthew Potogkas , like his father, runs the Palace cinema and says: “The summer cinema still remains one of the favorite forms of entertainment for the Greeks, perhaps more than the winter rooms.
The pensioner, Nikos Voudouris, fond of outdoor cinema, says for his part: “The summer cinema gets us out of the house, takes us into the sky and the moon. This is the nature of our people. ”
The article of CCTV states that many believed that the entrance of the cinema complex in the 90s will have had made the humbly summer cinemas to disappear, but this did not happen. The truth is that although they have greatly improved the quality of sound and image, there is still scope for improvement in summer cinemas.
The story of the Chinese channel concludes by saying that: “After so many years of austerity, the outdoor cinema experience provides a welcome escape for the Greek cinephile.”