Arpa Colla

Giorgos is a director and Kostas an author who has won a prize. The two of them want to make a film together. But not one of the ideas they come up with ever becomes real. Every time they talk to someone new they change their minds and turn towards an entirely different film, from political cinema to historical drama to pictures about motorcycle gangs. The title is a Greek phrase for something done in a hurry and not done well enough. The account uses that for the state of the characters and for the industry itself. It is a satire aimed at Greek cinema in 1982. Nikos Perakis’s hundred and four minute film, a joint German and Greek production, was completed in 1982.