Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World (movie)
Ηλίας Πετρόπουλος: Ένας κόσμος υπόγειος- User score: 6
- Production country: Greece
- Producer: Kalliopi Legaki
- Production companies: Portolanos Films, Greek Film Centre, EPT
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 8/15/2005
- Run time: 61 min.
Movie description
“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.
