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Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World
Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World

Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World

2005

6.3

Categories:

  • Documentary

Overview:

“I present the world with a very different approach, not as it was taught to us at school or in the army. I believe that each one has the right to see the society he lives in with his own particular view. I am, personally, more interested in Devil than God”- Elias Petropoulos. A restless and inquisitive spirit, a foe of academics and the status-quo, Petropoulos was the first folklorist in Greece, who dealt with social outcasts and described people and situations ignored by his country’s official history. Petropoulos takes us on a journey to unknown landscapes of our tradition and Greek-ness and acquaints us with all those people who belong to our social underground and who dominate his books. Rebetika musicians, bums, spivs, whores and homosexuals, people tormented and Greek-ness and acquaints us with all those people who belong to our social underground.

Kalliopi Legaki

Director, Writer

Maria Gentekou

Producer, Production Design, Assistant Director

Cast:

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  • Elias Petropoulos

    Elias Petropoulos

    Self
  • Aristeidis Antonas

    Aristeidis Antonas

    Self
  • Michalis Genitsaris

    Michalis Genitsaris

    Self
  • Yiorgos Kendros

    Yiorgos Kendros

    Narrator (voice)
  • Mine Kirikkanat

    Mine Kirikkanat

    Self
  • Nikos Koemtzis

    Nikos Koemtzis

    Self