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Hands Up, Hitler

1962 · 75 min

A bittersweet, talky remembrance that finds grim comedy in hardship, mixing nostalgia with the sting of remembered suffering.

Overview
Two friends (Thanasis Vengos and Vasilis Diamantopoulos) meet after many years and recollect the tragi-comic events they went through during the German occupation.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • friendship
  • survival
  • memory
  • class
Places
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour6
Realism6
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Roviros Manthoulis
Written by
Dionysis Milas
Starring
Thanasis Veggos, Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Spyros Kalogirou, Vasilis Andreopoulos, Eleni Karpeta, Mirka Kalatzopoulou, Nasos Kedrakas, Giannis Kalatzopoulos
Cinematography
Nikos Milas
Runtime
75 min
Country
Greece
Languages
Greek

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