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Arpa Colla

Arpa Colla

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 6, 1982

Runtime

1h 44m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

69%

Original Title

Άρπα Colla

Production Companies

Giorgos Panousopoulos EPE, Greek Film Centre, Spentzos Films, Taurus Film

Director

Nikos Perakis

Description

"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.