"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.
Writing
Ruthless self-satire that predicted every development hell story.
Direction
Perakis weaponizing Greek cinema's awkward adolescence.
Director
Nikos Perakis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Greece's post-junta cinematic thaw, when filmmakers finally mocked the system that suppressed them.
The film-within-film structure predates Hollywood's 90s meta-obsession by a decade—Greece was already exhausted by the machine.
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