The Roundup

The Roundup

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🎞️ Movie 74 min GR
โ˜… 7.3 /10 1965

One of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I urge you: Learn to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." The same could be said of Kyrou's own directorial work in Greece before the advent of the 1967 dictatorship forced him to flee to Paris. This confused mess, the first cinematic attempt at portraying the Greek resistance in WWII, caused quite a stink upon release, as much for its surprising style (recalling that of Bertolt Brecht) as for its subject matter. Reaction to its screening as part of the 1966 Cannes Film Festival's International Critic's Week was heated and divisive, proving Kyrou's later statement by rising above its own inherent silliness to achieve a sort of rarefied critical status. It's bad drama that nonetheless succeeds by dint of audacity more than quality (a comment which could apply equally to the work of many exploitation directors like Jean Rollin whom Kyrou later so lovingly profiled).

Cast

Xenia Kalogeropoulou
Xenia Kalogeropoulou
Antigoni
Alexandra Ladikou
Alexandra Ladikou
Myrto
Giannis Fertis
Giannis Fertis
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Kostas Kazakos
Kosmas
Manos Katrakis
Manos Katrakis
Ilias
Kostas Bakas
Kostas Bakas
Koula Agagiotou
Koula Agagiotou
Kostas Baladimas
Kostas Baladimas
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Hristos Bekiaris
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Kostas Diplaros
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Mikis Theodorakis
Composer
Grigoris Danalis
Grigoris Danalis
Cinematographer
Giorgos Panousopoulos
Giorgos Panousopoulos
Cinematographer