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1982 · 116 mins · Greek
Directed by
Yannis Smaragdis, Yorgos Apostolidis
Starring
Konstantinos Tzoumas, Dimitris Piatas, Giorgos Mylonas, Manos Destounis, Joly Garbi, Harry Klynn

The film presents three short, sharply comic episodes that lampoon Greece during the early 1980s period of “Change.” One segment parodies the classic police dramas created by Giannis Maris, another skewers the pretensions of New Greek Cinema, and the third humorously riffs on the nostalgic “fustanella” (Greek kilt) costume films.

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