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Ilias Petropoulos: A World Underground (2005)

Directed by Kalliopi Legaki

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.

Length 61 minutes

Actors

Elias Petropoulos | Aristeidis Antonas | Michalis Genitsaris | Yiorgos Kendros | Mine Kirikkanat | Nikos Koemtzis | Mary Koukoule | Faidon Koukoules | Jacques Lacarriere | Paola | Ilias Papadimitrakopoulos | Lakis Santas | Dimitris Souliotis | Kostas Tsoklis | Jacques Vallet | Vasilis Vasilikos