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Loafing and Camouflage

1984 · 99 min

A wry, character-driven satire that finds absurdity in military bureaucracy, offering a dryly amusing and gently subversive look at life under a dictatorship.

Directed by
Nikos Perakis
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Giorgos Kimoulis, Stavros Xenidis
Tagline
Our national... tragedy now a comedy.
Overview
A group of Greek soldiers are assigned to run the Cinematographic Unit of the army in the midst of political unrest.

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Directed by
Nikos Perakis
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Giorgos Kimoulis, Stavros Xenidis
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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • politics
  • power
  • media
  • friendship
  • identity
Places
  • military
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour7
Realism7
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight4

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Genres
comedy
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Giorgos Kimoulis, Stavros Xenidis, Andreas Filippides, Takis Spyridakis, Tania Kapsali, Hristos Valavanidis, Antonis Theodorakopoulos
Music
Nikos Mamangakis
Cinematography
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Runtime
99 min
Country
Greece
Languages
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