Film

Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World

2005 · 1h 1m · Documentary

IMDb

8.2

“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.

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

Paola Revenioti

Self

• Kalliopi LegakiDirector · Writer
• Maria GentekouProducer
• Giannis MisouridisDirector of Photography
• Nikos PapadogoulasOriginal Music Composer
• Elias DemetriouEditor

Release date

August 15, 2005

Status

Released

Original language

Greek

Runtime

1h 1m

Genres

Documentary