O vasilias

After having seen a lot of Greek movies I feel very suspicious against most of them. But after watching this I felt astonished. The movies is great without a big try. You cannot claim that the screenplay is so great or the photography is perfect or something technical. It's a real story and it is happening in Greek rural areas in places forgotten from God. The movie is like a punch in the stomach and I would really wish that things are not like this. It obviously talks about the xenophobia of the Greek people (the ignorance)to anything different. The problem of this guy is not that he is an ex-convicted. The problem is that he is not one of these people. He is different and they do not want them (that's why all the good things he is doing turn boomerang to him). And also speaks about the apathy of the people, because there are some people who are against the hunting of the King, but they do not dare to say their opinion. In the end you can clearly see the hypocrisy of the society being religious and trying to act like God says, but at the same time acting so unfairly to the King. This shows how easily people rationalize their feelings or their beliefs according to the established system. In the end you can have a positive lesson from this very bad story, meaning that you can understand and be part of this society only if you want to become one of them. If you want to remain different and even alone, you are lost (and it is not far from reality) I think it is tragic that the story is real and this should be a bell for everybody. No comment for the main actor because he is already given an award and I believe that his play was great. Small comment for Hatzisavvas (plays the policeman), he is like a dinosaur, he has played a lot of roles and I'm sure that this role for him was very easy but he plays it so great that you cannot deny him a big bravo. I definitely recommend this movie to anybody who wants to see a good Greek movie.

the king in this film is what can be called here in Greece freak, marginal misfit and other words with negative connotations, but in the film is clearly the vehicle of the director to criticize the provincial mentality of the people and Greece by extension. the director must have a leftist ideology or anti-establishment and doesn't hesitate to show it in his films, in APONTES is more clearly stated than in VASILIAS.My problem with his film-making is that he tries to teach me a lesson(if you succumb to the ruling class ideology you become an a*****e or a person that attracts his despise) i don't disagree with him but thanks for the lesson i already had it.Nevertheless although the film gets a little boring and predictable after a while, but is still worth seeing for the indigenous population who is bombarded by worse films in the multiplex. better to see a clichéd old fashioned anti hero drama than some junk mainly from the states.

Its a classic anti-hero film; you have watched sooo many similar films.

This doesn't something new or different. The screenplay is "ok" (nothing superb, but ok, fine), the direction and script is also "ok" (fair, good, but nothing to get so much excited), with "ok" music (no other comment), etc.

Seriously, if you watched the FIRST (and ONLY GOOD) film "RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD", its almost the same... without the action, the fights, the chasing, etc. Its far more emotional this film here, obviously, its more dramatic (than "RAMBO"), but seriously, if you watch "RAMBO"... why to watch this one here too?

Its not a "masterpiece", its an "ok" dramatic film, that's all.

True story...it happened in the middle of 90's in a village in Peloponnesus

One of the best greek cult films with many great actors, based on a true story once happened in Douneika Achaias. Vaggelis, once he gets out of prison (made his time for drugs) decides to make a fresh start and decides to leave Athens. He goes to his father's village which is deserted and starts building the house from scratch. People in the near village don't take his arrival in good heart so they make everything for him to leave. Sad story for a man who wants to turn his life upside down and change for good but people never accept him. A film worth seeing. Music by Thanasis Papakonstantinou.