Press quotes

“Stefan Haupt’s portrait shows a fascinating and charming man, whose search for reconciliation is beset with obstacles …” Andre Grieder, FACTS 43/06


“Stefan Haupt’s moving documentary about guilt, reconciliation and the fight against oblivion is impressive and important!” www.arttv.ch


“There are no words to describe what little big-eyed Argyris may have felt when he found first his father and then his mother dead. A SONG FOR ARGYRIS cannot explain the inexplicable. Yet the soft human voice in which this song rings out on screen makes it impossible not to listen. This is no film like many others. Not so much because of the superb photography and the masterly shots, but because the director steps behind an extraordinary human being and his unbearable destiny.” Stefan Volk, Filmbulletin 8.06



“Stefan Haupt retraces the protagonist’s tortuous life path that led him, amongst other things, to the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in Trogen. He draws up the moving picture of a man whose childhood trauma has not broken him, but led him to committing himself to more humaneness.” Der Bund


“Is there a life befitting a human being after experiencing a massacre?” St. Galler Tagblatt

“A lament and a rage song in one.... a forceful documentary”. Berner Zeitung


“Stefan Haupt has achieved a masterpiece that gets under your skin.” Reto Baer, Zeitlupe


“Stefan Haupt’s documentary, A SONG FOR ARGYRIS, shows a personal destiny and a chapter of our history – told from the victim’s viewpoint. Intimate and moving.
Argyris’s melancholy charm is endearing. We suffer with him and we admire his composure.” Sabine Affolter, Aargauer Zeitung



“Stefan Haupt draws a gripping and sensitive portrait.” Basler Zeitung


“The stories are shocking and fascinating at the same time. It is worth understanding them as examples and as episodes of world history. And they are not mere enumerations of historic facts. Stefan Haupt and Argyris Sfountouris take a stand, reflect, deal with the topic intellectually and emotionally, and penetrate into questions about the meaning of being human. Why could this happen? How do you continue living afterwards? What meaning for one’s life? How can we prevent such things from happening or at least do something about them? These are the questions asked by the film, and asked by ourselves. To me A SONG FOR ARGYRIS is one of the most important Swiss documentaries of the last few years.” Hanspeter Stalder, www.der-andere-film.ch