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.

Cast

Elias Petropoulos

Self

Aristeidis Antonas

Self

Michalis Genitsaris

Self

Yiorgos Kendros

Narrator (voice)

Mine Kirikkanat

Self

Nikos Koemtzis

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Mary Koukoule

Self

Faidon Koukoules

Self

Jacques Lacarriere

Self

Paola

Self