Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World
Watch elias petropoulos: an underground world lookmovie. “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.
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: Greece
- Director: Kalliopi Legaki
- Cast: Elias Petropoulos, Aristeidis Antonas, Michalis Genitsaris, Yiorgos Kendros, Mine Kirikkanat, Nikos Koemtzis, Mary Koukoule, Faidon Koukoules, Jacques Lacarriere, Paola, Ilias Papadimitrakopoulos, Lakis Santas