
Acting
Dimitris Piatas (born Athens 1951, as Dimitrios Piatas) is a Greek actor.

Poor Tasos and was so young! But also very jealous. A defect that ultimately cost him his own life as during his last jealousy crisis for of his beautiful girlfriend Alice, he will fall victim of a traffic accident. Archangels will sympathize with him, granting him another five invisible, on land, minutes, where he will have the opportunity to touch his favorite - and not - persons and to intervene in their lives.

It is the summer of 1974. After the Turkish invasion in Cyprus the greek dictatorship mobilises the army. A small squad in northern Greece is ordered among others to go to Cyprus, but when the dictatorship falls, the soldiers are left in the island of Samothrace awaiting orders. As days pass things are getting out of control

Niki when she was still a child she had a gift. A stuffed parrot that brought her luck. Thanks to that her father and his friends were able to win in gambling in order to make a living. One day though a friend of her's steals the parrot and as a result her father goes bankrupt and ends in prison. Niki as an adult she has to fight back her old friend in a poker tournament. Things get tough thou when she falls in love with him.

"Arpa-colla" in Greek literally means "Grab and stick", a phrase used to show something that has been done quickly and therefore isn't good enough. This is what the 2 main heroes of the film are doing. The one is a director(Giorgos) and the other an author(Kostas) with communistic ideas, who has won a prize at a festival. They both want to make a movie for the cinema. But every idea they have never comes true, because every time they meet someone to whom they tell their idea, they change their mind, and they want to make a totally different movie, ideas varying from political cinema to Greek historical dramas and modern films with motorcycle gangs. Not a bad attempt for the Greek cinema of the early 80's, which starts to wake up from the hibernation of the 70's.

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Three short stories satirizing the Greece of “Change” in early 80's. A take-off on the police dramas of Giannis Maris; a satire of the films of the New Greek Cinema; and a satire of the “fustanella (Greek kilt)” films as well.

Manos (Christos Loulis) seems to have problems with his love life. He leaves the capital and coercive girlfriend to be close to his only relatives in the province. There, apart from his uncle (Paul Chaikalis) - that is looking frantically for donuts with honey - and beloved aunt (Bright Baxevani), he will meet Xenia (Fay Xila), an old friend who now works in the funeral home. With the help of the clever and cute pink piggy Marikaki he will try to reveal a old secret on the whole village and break out the lies that prevent redemptive truth.

A group of men that their friendship starts from the army, meet after years in the funeral of a friend. This bad time reunites them, as for many years the family life and obligations, had absorbed a strong friendship.

Director’s statement: “Electra is in her early 30s, living in Athens today. She is an artist, but she makes a living working as a babysitter. She is an activist and her boyfriend is a political prisoner. She feels lonely and is struggling to find her place in the world. We follow her as she meets the most important people in her life. Through these meetings, we understand better not only Electra, but also a whole generation of young people who feel stifled in this world. Capitalism, consumerism, globalization are currently being cast into doubt, so I needed to make a film that addresses all these things. What I’m interested in is showing how they affect our everyday life, our small decisions, our intimate relationships.”

A completely euphemistic black comedy or the worst film you've ever seen, Dimitris Piata's feature directorial debut in the cinema is the triumph of bad taste over "whatever".

A completely euphemistic black comedy or the worst film you've ever seen, Dimitris Piata's feature directorial debut in the cinema is the triumph of bad taste over "whatever".

The familiar theme of the husband, wife, and lover, who is Pontian and, in fact, from Kalamata. The husband's obsession is video, and his love for the star of "Dynasty," Jane...

Lakis is a rock singer who is experiencing a downturn in his career and is facing challenges with his record label, his manager, his girlfriend Barbara, and his friend Leo. The "other" Lakis is his twin brother, who is dealing with personal problems in his life in Gatzohori, his father Manthos, his girlfriend Krostallo, and his friend Kotsos. One is unaware of the other's existence, but the arrival of their mother Heidi from America and the preparation of a show in Gatzohori will be the beginning of a series of misunderstandings...

