A Grek revange

Few movie that i have seen as been as perfect and well done as Marco Papandreou a tale of a north. Ir is a nightmare like journey in two period of the Greece XX century history the beginning of the dictatorship in the year 1936 but also in 1946 when Greece was in a bloody civil war between the Soviet supported communist and the wester mainly British . The main place in which this film is steel is the tavern of Antonios so well paly by Alexandros Nikolaidis. A kind of cating that is full of passion technical capability and even some kind of expressionism  His tavena s a place with musi and with several surving person that meet like a jews that still live I Salonik play by Dimitris Goulis that is attacg by some kind of Holligan that is the rather sophisticate but extremely nasty young man play by Dimitris Krikos. He is even in a way quite sick and may be is disturbed by second world war experience. He is cable of a vaery niece dacing an one see mostly in the camera work that follow him bt the DP Nikos Kolioukos several influce from a Pier Poalo pasolini kind of realism to the ghoast of a noir film. The fallen woman that is with the Hooligan is play by Despina Goropolou

. Papandreou gives with camera and the help of really well talent actress to give deep to her. As the hooligan is a double for Antonios and him of that the dar lady as a double in Jenny play by Christina Dagak Anonios girl firnd. A paper article with the notice of a criminal escape that destroy antois family play by Nikos Korexianos. The acting of this extreme villain is so  natualr and for that even more fighting with his rather stupid and comical Konstantinos Gkaitatzis . The young Anyonios is play by Stefanos Kaltsidis   that is a victim like the young mother an intense Isabella Margara. There is also a touch of Tarantino but without exaggerating after the discus between the criminal and Antonios father Panos Tsakiris  . This kind of violence is even present in the communist guerrilla that comes in the end with the great performance of a fanatic Stalinist by Thodoris Nikolaidis. A relaly great movie an impressive debut  in class with Orson Wells “Citzen Kane” a greta work indeed

Robert Fogelberg Rota