Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World

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.

Directed by Kalliopi Legaki

Top cast

Elias Petropoulos

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Aristeidis Antonas

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Michalis Genitsaris

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Yiorgos Kendros

Narrator (voice)

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Mine Kirikkanat

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Nikos Koemtzis

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Mary Koukoule

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Faidon Koukoules

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Jacques Lacarriere

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Ilias Papadimitrakopoulos

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Lakis Santas

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Dimitris Souliotis

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Kostas Tsoklis

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Jacques Vallet

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Vasilis Vasilikos

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Paola Revenioti

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