Ilias Petropoulos: A World Underground

Ilias Petropoulos: A World Underground

61 mins | Documentary | Aug. 15, 2005

“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.

Ilias Petropoulos: A World Underground

61 mins | Documentary | Aug. 15, 2005

Ilias Petropoulos: A World Underground
“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.
Producers Greek Film Centre, Hellenic Radio & Television, Portolanos Films
Original title Ηλίας Πετρόπουλος: Ένας κόσμος υπόγειος
Directors Maria Gentekou, Kalliopi Legaki
Writers Kalliopi Legaki

Cast

Elias Petropoulos

as Himself

Aristeidis Antonas

as Himself

Michalis Genitsaris

as Himself

Yiorgos Kendros

as Narrator (voice)

Mine Kirikkanat

as Herself

Nikos Koemtzis

as Himself

Mary Koukoule

as Herself

Faidon Koukoules

as Himself

Jacques Lacarriere

as Himself

Paola

as Herself

Lakis Santas

as Himself

Dimitris Souliotis

as Himself

Kostas Tsoklis

as Himself

Jacques Vallet

as Himself

Vasilis Vasilikos

as Himself