Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World
Directed by Kalliopi Legaki
Plot
“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.
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Cast
Elias Petropoulos
Self
Aristeidis Antonas
Self
Michalis Genitsaris
Self
Yiorgos Kendros
Narrator (voice)
Mine Kirikkanat
Self
Nikos Koemtzis
Self
Mary Koukoule
Self
Faidon Koukoules
Self
Jacques Lacarriere
Self
Ilias Papadimitrakopoulos
Self
Lakis Santas
Self
Dimitris Souliotis
Self
Kostas Tsoklis
Self
Jacques Vallet
Self
Vasilis Vasilikos
Self