Zeibekiko &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:Zeibekiko @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:47:41 +0200 Παραγγελιά! [Parangelia! / Request for a Song] (Pavlos Tasios, 1980) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8mcn <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Παραγγελιά! [Parangelia! / Request for a Song] (Pavlos Tasios, 1980)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" Top Gun Day/div div class="img" Παραγγελιά! (1980)/div div class="caption" A man dances the Zeibekiko, with another close to him. DPs: Sakis Maniatis & Kostas Papagiannakis./div div class="txt" Testosterone! for Top Gun Day (USA) &nbsp; The Ζεϊμπέκικο (Zeibekiko) is a Greek dance, improvised by one man, alone. It's a dance that shows the performer's manliness, both his pride and his sorrows. Out of respect for the dancer, the others sit down, watch, and relate to him. &nbsp; When the police enters the establishment – and this is 1973, the colonels ruled the naton – and interrupt the dancer, his older brother steps in./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #TopGunDay #PavlosTasios #AntonisAntoniou #AntonisKafetzopoulos #KaterinaGogou #SofiaRoubou #OliaLazaridou #KiriakosSfetsas #SakisManiatis #KostasPapagiannakis #dance #Zeibekiko #drama #biography #crime #machismo #Greece #1980s/div /section ]]>

Παραγγελιά! [Parangelia! / Request for a Song] (Pavlos Tasios, 1980)

May

13

Top Gun Day

Παραγγελιά! (1980)

A man dances the Zeibekiko, with another close to him. DPs: Sakis Maniatis & Kostas Papagiannakis.

Testosterone! for Top Gun Day (USA)

 

The Ζεϊμπέκικο (Zeibekiko) is a Greek dance, improvised by one man, alone. It's a dance that shows the performer's manliness, both his pride and his sorrows. Out of respect for the dancer, the others sit down, watch, and relate to him.

 

When the police enters the establishment – and this is 1973, the colonels ruled the naton – and interrupt the dancer, his older brother steps in.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #TopGunDay #PavlosTasios #AntonisAntoniou #AntonisKafetzopoulos #KaterinaGogou #SofiaRoubou #OliaLazaridou #KiriakosSfetsas #SakisManiatis #KostasPapagiannakis #dance #Zeibekiko #drama #biography #crime #machismo #Greece #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8mcn Tue, 13 May 2025 23:00:00 +0200 Ο Δράκος [O Drakos / The Ogre of Athens / The Ogre / The Vampire] (Nikos... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/o-drakos-1956 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ο Δράκος [O Drakos / The Ogre of Athens / The Ogre / The Vampire] (Nikos Koundouros, 1956)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 31/div div class="occasion" New Year's Eve/div div class="img" Ο Δράκος (1956)/div div class="caption" Men in identical white shirts and dark slacks dancing in the club during after hours. Their upper bodies seem top-heavy, tending to lunge towards the ground. DP: Kostas Theodoridis./div div class="txt" New Year's Eve celebrations. &nbsp; A mousy bank clerk (Dinos Iliopoulos), who bears an uncanny resemblance to a criminal on the run, finds himself hiding in a shady cabaret on New Year's Eve instead of spending a quiet evening alone. During his forced stay at the nightclub, he comes to enjoy and identify more and more with his newfound persona and assumes the role of the notorious "Drago". &nbsp; An initial box office dud, it is now considered one of the top ten all-time best Greek films. &nbsp; Happy new year, everyone! On to many more cinematic discoveries!/div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NewYearsEve #NikosKoundouros #DinosIliopoulos #GiannisArgyris #MargaritaPapageorgiou #MarikaLekaki #ManosHatzidakis #KostasTheodoridis #Zeibekiko #FilmNoir #satire #crime #holidays #romance #drama #music #Greece #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Ο Δράκος [O Drakos / The Ogre of Athens / The Ogre / The Vampire] (Nikos Koundouros, 1956)

Dec

31

New Year's Eve

Ο Δράκος (1956)

Men in identical white shirts and dark slacks dancing in the club during after hours. Their upper bodies seem top-heavy, tending to lunge towards the ground. DP: Kostas Theodoridis.

New Year's Eve celebrations.

 

A mousy bank clerk (Dinos Iliopoulos), who bears an uncanny resemblance to a criminal on the run, finds himself hiding in a shady cabaret on New Year's Eve instead of spending a quiet evening alone. During his forced stay at the nightclub, he comes to enjoy and identify more and more with his newfound persona and assumes the role of the notorious “Drago”.

 

An initial box office dud, it is now considered one of the top ten all-time best Greek films.

 

Happy new year, everyone! On to many more cinematic discoveries!

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NewYearsEve #NikosKoundouros #DinosIliopoulos #GiannisArgyris #MargaritaPapageorgiou #MarikaLekaki #ManosHatzidakis #KostasTheodoridis #Zeibekiko #FilmNoir #satire #crime #holidays #romance #drama #music #Greece #1950s ★★★★☆

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