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Day Off

1982 · 75 min

A quiet, wry slice of urban drift, following mundane errands until the exhaustion of doing nothing becomes quietly funny and faintly sad.}{.

Overview
Against the backdrop of Athens' bustling streets, a Greek white-collar worker starts his day off by doing various errands, and even though he hasn't worked all day, in reality, he is exhausted. Is this what his typical day off looks like?

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How it feels

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • identity
  • isolation
  • class
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism8
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Vasilis Vafeas
Written by
Vasilis Vafeas
Starring
Petros Zarkadis, Katerina Yioulaki, Dimitris Piatas, Anna Makraki, Mihalis Mitrousis, Dimitris Katalifos, Athinodoros Prousalis, Minas Hatzisavvas
Runtime
75 min
Country
Greece
Languages
Greek

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