Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World
MovieTitle | Ηλίας Πετρόπουλος: Ένας κόσμος υπόγειος |
User score | 6.3 |
Release date | Aug 15, 2005 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Kalliopi Legaki |
Production country | Greece |
Production companies | Portolanos Films, Greek Film Centre, EPT |
Run time | 61 min. |
“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.