From the Edge of the City (1998) [N/A]
Featuring:
Stathis Papadopoulos, Costas Kotsianidis, Panagiotis Chartomatsidis
Written by:
Constantine Giannaris
Directed by:
Constantine Giannaris
Release Date:
November 20, 1998
Original Title:
Από Την Άκρη Της Πόλης
Alternate Titles:
Apo tin akri tis polis
Garçons d'Athènes
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Hot Shot Productions
Production Countries:
Greece
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 94
Minority-group Greeks from an outer suburb of Athens struggle with their life on society's fringe and exploitation of one another.
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. 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.
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