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From the Edge of the City
- Director: Constantine Giannaris
- Writer: Constantine Giannaris
- Producer: Maria Powell; Dionysis Samiotis
CGiii Comment
There is a semblance of a great film here - but, with all the erratic edits it becomes a little too difficult...
It is a subject worth exploring: young male émigrés bringing their macho, racist, and sexist culture into a different country and expecting the same kind of acceptance as they found on their home turf.
This is a different type of Greek film - thankfully, there is no Almodovar-esque quirkiness. The women in this film are mere commodities, the boys do the gay-4-pay without any guilt.
This will do no favours to Russians or any immigrant - a harsh reality, an unsympathetic view because sympathy is not deserved.
Definitely damaging - ostensibly offensive...everyone can be politically correct, simply by turning a blind eye - and, remaining silent.
A very brave film that will hurt many people.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The "Edge of the City" means Menidi, a poor suburb on the edge of pulsating Athens (the city). Menidi harbours many Cosssack Greeks. They are also called "pontios", ethnic Greeks from the Black Sea dispersed through the ex-Southern Soviet Union in the Stalin era. The "pontios" have returned to Greece en masse after the demise of the USSR. The parents speak mostly Greek, but the teenage children speak a hybrid Russian-Greek language which reflects their lack of identity and marginalization in Greece's highly xenophobic society (the only EU country where no minorities exist!...officially). The teenagers' marginalization leads them to the core of the film's theme: the lives of petty crime and prostitution which these second or third class Greeks lead. Their camaraderie, the way they mock each others' dealing in homosexuality, their sexual and criminal exploitation by rich Greeks, their own exploitation of prostitutes, sexual and moral ambiguity all lead to the film's defining!
Cast & Characters
Stathis Papadopoulos as Sasha;
Costas Kotsianidis as Kotsian;
Panayiotis Hartomatzidis as Panagiotis;
Dimitris Papoulidis as Giorgos;
Theodora Tzimou as Natasha;
Anestis Polychronidis as Anestis;
Nikos Kamontos as Filippos;
Stelios Tsemboglidis as Stelios;
Giorgos Mavridis as Chorny;
Panagiota Vlachosotirou as Elenitsa