Thanasis in the land of the cuff

Directed by Dinos Katsouridis and Panos Glykofrydis

With Thanasis Veggos, Antonis Papadopoulos, Ilias Logothetis, Aina Maouer and Takis Halas

The movie is about dictatorships in Greece – first, the Metaxas regime (1936-1940), and then the Colonels’ Junta (1967-74). In Part One, the Metaxas regime is depicted as a circus, where Thanasis (Thanasis Vengos) is a clown trying to conceal a young colleague’s subversive action. In Part Two, we see Thanasis suffer because of his honesty and kindness, in a country where the system’s irrationality is clearly evident.