Ηλίας Πετρόπουλος: Ένας κόσμος υπόγειος · 2005

Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World

Kalliopi Legaki · 61 min · Greece

“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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Production companies

Portolanos Films, Greek Film Centre, ERT

Cast

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  Elias Petropoulos

  Self

• Aristeidis Antonas

  Self

• Michalis Genitsaris

  Self

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  Yiorgos Kendros

  Narrator (voice)

• Mine Kirikkanat

  Self

• Nikos Koemtzis

  Self

• Mary Koukoule

  Self

• Faidon Koukoules

  Self