Voitheia o Vengos, faneros praktor '000'

I have nothing against the first Austin Powers film, but I have to say that with less budget ,tools and location ,Thanasis Vegos made some of the best spy comedies of all time with this one and its sequel.

Simply put everything from the slapstick, to the one-liners and the events that take place all are amazing directed and put of film for future generation to laugh their asses out.

Vegos was by far the best comedian in the film industry of Greece and here he is at his prime. This one of these films that has to be analyzed in film schools in order to teach how to make a comedy.

If you consider yourself a master of the comedy genre then you have to watch this film asap!

Thanasis Veggos, alternatively spelled Thanassis and/or Vengos, (Greek: Θανάσης Βέγγος; pronounced: Thanássis Véngos; 29 May 1927 – 3 May 2011) was the most popular and critically acclaimed Greek film comic.

His style incorporated slapstick elements to the popular art of Karagiozis (Greek shadow theater).He was not -as many of his contemporaries- a comedian of theatrical origins.He was a pure cinematic actor, using the 60s New Wave sense of montage to refine his physical artistry.He was as influenced by the Mack Sennet comedies as he was from the New Wave and the Free Cinema.

This film, the first one he directed -and the first for his own production company- is a surrealistic spoof of the James Bond movies. This was followed by "The Baldheaded Agent and the Land of Destruction Mission" which Greek film critics and historians consider to be his masterpiece. This first movie follows Thou-Vou (Vengos' initials), a Greek Secret Agent from his school days to his first mission. A very weird movie to watch if you're not Greek .

i am with koukou and we think that this movie is the greatest movie ever.vengos' jokes are the best and every time we watch the movie we can't stop laughing!!!!!(gamiomaste sta gelia)... best joke:"afou eisai mapas"

Around the same time Mel Brooks started his career as a writer and director of "anarchic" comedies, Thanasis Vengos did pretty much the same thing in Greece with this spy movie parody. This film has the same feel with Brooks' best efforts, as well as the Abrahams-Zuker-Arahams comedies,which arrived a full decade later. Despite some misfires, there is a barrage of ingenious jokes, as well as a general surreal atmosphere that make this a winner. The film can also be read as an underground satire of the police state that was Greece in the 60's and which led to the 7-year junta in 1967. A year later Vengos reconfirmed his innovative spirit by releasing a sequel- a long time before they became fashionable.

It is a great pity that this comedy will not be watched by other than Greek speaking audiences. I have watched most of what are considered to be the greatest comedies of all time in the history of the cinema. I can say that without any doubt this is the finest and funniest of them all. It is the only movie that has me crying from laughing each and every time I watch it. I know it by heart, as I have seen it countless times, and it never gets boring, it never wears off!

Theough it has elements of the Marx Brothers anarchic humor, and physical gags in the tradition of Chaplin, Keaton, Langton etc, it is an extremely original comedy, well ahead of it's time, being pythonesque two years before the Python were even created. It is very sad that he isn't so famous as they are...

Veggos is a genius and here is the movie that proves it!