From the Edge of the City

From the Edge of the City

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Movie Review: Amazing, Interactive and really 5 Stars

It centres on Sacha (Stathis Papadopoulos), an ethnic Greek from the Black Sea area whose forbears were ethnically cleansed by Stalin and who returned to Greece from Kazakhstan in 1990 following the collapse of the Soviet Union, speaking a Greek-Russian hybrid. He and his contemporaries get by with casual jobs, turning tricks with older Greek men, doing drugs - and Sacha gets involved in the exploitation business, buying a "share" in a desperate Russian prostitute, with whom he falls in love.

Set against the parched, unforgiving landscape of suburban Athens, Giannaris's film is humid and clamorous, dramatising the incidental human aspect of these huge historical forces, while showing how weirdly ignorant of history his characters are. Sacha and his friends at one point argue about what happened in Chernobyl and agree it was where America dropped the atom bomb. There is something a little naive and redundant about the movie, with more than a few urban youth cliches - but there are interesting moments as well, particularly Sacha's surreal dreams, both of his own childhood and of his future traditional Greek wedding, enacted in a strange, silent cornfield.