Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World (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.

Released Aug. 15, 2005 61 min None+

Genres: Biography, Documentary

Keywords: imdb.narration, imdb.underground, imdb.graveyard, imdb.slang, imdb.rembetiko-singer, imdb.unconventional, imdb.archive + 7 more, imdb.research, imdb.book, imdb.jail, imdb.exile, imdb.leftist, imdb.writer, imdb.character-name-in-title