
Loafing and Camouflage
The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV station, founded for the civilian population, was run by the Cinematographic Unit of the army which until then had only produced propaganda films and newsreels and was responsible for entertaining the troops and other charity organizations with movie screenings. The personnel was composed mostly of soldiers, who already had experience in the film business in their civilian lives, as well as those who received their training in the army. The story may be only 95% true, but that is simply because the true story is even more absurd...
Loafing and Camouflage
Rating
7.4/10
Release Date
1984-10-01
Runtime
99 minutes
Status
Released
Cast

Nikos Kalogeropoulos
Pvt Ioannis Papadopoulos

Giorgos Kimoulis
Pvt Ahilleas Labrou

Stavros Xenidis
Col A. Kontelis

Andreas Filippides
Lt. Col. Minas Katsabelas

Takis Spiridakis
Pvt Panagiotis Balourdos

Tania Kapsali
Emmanouela Dimaki

Hristos Valavanidis
Maj D. Karavidis

Antonis Theodorakopoulos
Captain

Fotis Polyhronopoulos
Pvt Michalis 'Karamazov' Karamanos

Nikos Tsachiridis
Staff Sergeant

Ifigeneia Makati
Katerina Papadopoulou

Giannis Hatzigiannis
Pvt Petros Savvidis
Production Companies
Spentzos Films

Greek Film Centre