Loafing and Camouflage
The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV station, founded for the civilian population, was run by the Cinematographic Unit of the army which until then had only produced propaganda films and newsreels and was responsible for entertaining the troops and other charity organizations with movie screenings. The personnel was composed mostly of soldiers, who already had experience in the film business in their civilian lives, as well as those who received their training in the army. The story may be only 95% true, but that is simply because the true story is even more absurd...
Cast
Nikos Kalogeropoulos
as Pvt Ioannis Papadopoulos
Giorgos Kimoulis
as Pvt Ahilleas Labrou
Stavros Xenidis
as Col A. Kontelis
Andreas Filippides
as Lt. Col. Minas Katsabelas
Takis Spiridakis
as Pvt Panagiotis Balourdos
Tania Kapsali
as Emmanouela Dimaki
Hristos Valavanidis
as Maj D. Karavidis
Antonis Theodorakopoulos
as Captain
Fotis Polyhronopoulos
as Pvt Michalis 'Karamazov' Karamanos
Nikos Tsachiridis
as Staff Sergeant
