1980 · crime · true-story · rembetiko
Parangelia
Directed by Pavlos Tasios1h 27m1980
The true story of Nikos Koemtzis, a man who stabbed three men to death in 1973 Athens for disrespecting his brother Demos' zeibekiko, a traditional Greek dance.
Our read: Parangelia (1980) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded crime · true-story · rembetiko entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme crime / true-story, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
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