Piso porta (2000)

Athens 1966. Dimitris, 13, unexpectedly loses his father. Seeing his pampered mother collapse, the boy gets carried away and decides to skip childhood in order to stand by her. When he ... See full summary »

Director:

Yorgos Tsemberopoulos

Writers:

Dennis Iliadis, Yorgos Tsemberopoulos

Stars:

Konstandinos Papadimitriou, Alexandriani Sikelianou, Haris Sozos

1 win & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Konstandinos Papadimitriou	...	Dimitris Kemeras
Alexandriani Sikelianou	...	Foteini Kemera
Haris Sozos	...	Apostolos Dedes
Ieroklis Michaelidis	...	Uncle Ilias
Antonis Kafetzopoulos	...	Giannis Kemeras
Margarita Anthidou	...	Officer's Wife #1
Vassiliki Deliou	...	Officer's Wife #2
Yorgos Kalaitzis	...	Officer #1
Stavros Psyllakis	...	Officer #2
Alexandros Tsakiris	...	Officer #3
Dimitris Adamopoulos	...	Architect
Matias Simounets	...	Psimikakis
Giorgos Basiakos	...	Technician
Giannis Tsikis	...	Urban Planning Officer #1
Stathis Voutos	...	Urban Planning Officer #2

Storyline

Athens 1966. Dimitris, 13, unexpectedly loses his father. Seeing his pampered mother collapse, the boy gets carried away and decides to skip childhood in order to stand by her. When he feels ready, he has to claim his mother back from an up-and-coming star of the military regime. A brutal coming-of-age story, where Dimitris reacts in vengeance, changing thus the course of Greek history...

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Plot Keywords:

prostitute | dictatorship | teenager | male rear nudity | male nudity | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Greece France Romania

Language:

Greek

Release Date:

6 October 2000 (Greece)

Also Known As:

Backdoor

Company Credits

Production Co:

Alpha TV,FilmNet,Filmex

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

At one point the young hero gets a Playboy magazine in his hands. While the movie takes places in the spring of 1967 (just a few months before the military coup take over in Greece), the issue shown is of the December of 1972, five years later.

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Connections

Features To allo gramma (1976)

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Soundtracks

Sele Cose Stano Cosi
Written by Luis Bacalov
Performed by Sergio Endrigo
Courtesy of Minos EMI/BMG

User Reviews

A paint-by-numbers version of "Z"

This film starts out by being about one thing, (a young boy growing up without a father, his burgeoning sexuality and friendships), and ends up something else entirely, (a picture of Greece at the time of the dictatorship). It ought to be more interesting than it actually is. It's about youthful revolutionary fervor but it has no revolutionary fervor of its own. It would have been a better film if it had ditched the politics altogether and concentrated instead on the life-lessons of the central character, a boy from a well-heeled family of developers whose father has died suddenly. Konstandinos Papadimitriou sleepwalks his way through the part; his character isn't allowed to develop and you lose interest in him. If the film had been about his older, worldly-wise friend played by Andreas Kontopolous it probably would have been better.

The film dawdles along without any sense of urgency. It's meant to be a child's eye view of the world and in particular of the political situation in Greece at the time but it's like a paint-by-numbers version of "Z". It keeps flashing forward to what appears to be the boy's detention but that feels like a gimmick to keep us watching to the end. We know from the start what is going to happen so we need something a lot more forceful than what the director gives us to sustain our interest. It's well-intentioned but a bit on the dull side.