Loafing and Camouflage

Loafing and Camouflage

1984 · 99 min · EL · 7.4 (39 votes)
Dir. Nikos Perakis · Starring Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Giorgos Kimoulis, Stavros Xenidis, Andreas Filippides, Takis Spyridakis, Tania Kapsali · Music Nikos Mamangakis · Loafing and Camouflage Collection

“Our national... tragedy now a comedy.”

Comedy

A group of Greek soldiers are assigned to run the Cinematographic Unit of the army in the midst of political unrest.

VIBE

A darkly comedic and absurd look at military life under a dictatorship. It feels like a cynical, satirical jab at bureaucracy and the ridiculousness of enforced conformity, wrapped in a uniquely European arthouse sensibility.

satiricalabsurdistdarkly comediccynicalsteadypolitical satiredark comedyEuropean arthousemilitary satirebureaucracyabsurdity of warconformity
armyathens, greecedictatorshiphistoricalgreek military junta