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Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World (2005)

Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World (2005)

Documentary
Release Date: 2005, August 15
Directors: Kalliopi Legaki
Countries: Greece
Production: Portolanos Films, Greek Film Centre, ERT
Cast: Yiorgos Kendros, Elias Petropoulos, Aristeidis Antonas, Michalis Genitsaris, Mine Kirikkanat, Nikos Koemtzis, Mary Koukoule, Faidon Koukoules, Jacques Lacarriere, Paola, Ilias Papadimitrakopoulos, Lakis Santas

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.