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Proini peripolos

  • 1987
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
1.2K
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Proini peripolos (1987)
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Going alone into an abandoned, living city, a woman tries to cross a forbidden zone swarming with the Morning Patrol and traps. Meeting one of the last city guards, they attempt recall the p... Read allGoing alone into an abandoned, living city, a woman tries to cross a forbidden zone swarming with the Morning Patrol and traps. Meeting one of the last city guards, they attempt recall the past and penetrate the zone together.Going alone into an abandoned, living city, a woman tries to cross a forbidden zone swarming with the Morning Patrol and traps. Meeting one of the last city guards, they attempt recall the past and penetrate the zone together.

  • Director
    • Nikos Nikolaidis
  • Writers
    • Raymond Chandler
    • Philip K. Dick
    • Daphne Du Maurier
  • Stars
    • Michele Valley
    • Takis Spyridakis
    • Panos Thanassoulis
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    1.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Nikos Nikolaidis
    • Writers
      • Raymond Chandler
      • Philip K. Dick
      • Daphne Du Maurier
    • Stars
      • Michele Valley
      • Takis Spyridakis
      • Panos Thanassoulis
    • 8User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 3 nominations total

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    Michele Valley
    Michele Valley
    • Woman
    Takis Spyridakis
    Takis Spyridakis
    • Guard
    Panos Thanassoulis
    Panos Thanassoulis
    • 2nd Guard
    Takis Loukatos
    Takis Loukatos
    • Master
    Rania Trivela
    Haris Mavros
    Nikos Hatzis
    • Tramp
    V. Kavouri
    Liana Hatzi
    • Drunkard
    Vicky Kampouri
    Vicky Kampouri
    • Gang member
    • Director
      • Nikos Nikolaidis
    • Writers
      • Raymond Chandler
      • Philip K. Dick
      • Daphne Du Maurier
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    9propast

    A moving and intelligent look at the end of the world

    That this masterpiece is so unknown - undistributed throughout all the world, as far as I know, besides Greece - is nothing short of criminal. In terms of tone, it's most comparable to a slower, more elegiac Blade Runner - there's the same pervading sense of despair, of a deep, dark curtain coming down on the world. Exit stage right.

    It follows an unnamed woman wandering through a postapocalyptic wasteland. The people she comes across generally try to kill her, if she doesn't try to kill them first. Communication seems to fallen by the wayside and all the dialogue we get is the woman's internal monologue, a haze of sentimental memories and a longing for a better time.

    She works her way into a city, where food, shelter, and water are comparatively plentiful. It's every bit as much a wasteland as the outside world, but of a very different kind - abandoned technology makes its presence known constantly, including a memorable scene where the woman sits alone in a movie theatre, but for the unseen assailants slowly climbing and crawling over seats, working their way toward her.

    She meets a guard of the morning patrol, a kind of taskforce that has taken it upon itself to kill everyone it becomes aware of. Their job is more a mercy in this kind of world, and although their technological, inhuman precision marks them as the bad guys, they're practically saviours when life itself becomes an enemy.

    I won't go farther that on the off-chance that you're given a chance to see it - but either way, the plot is far from the point and doesn't unfold much differently than you'd expect it to. What does matter is a connection established between two nameless, faceless people floating in a void of memory and space, a timeless land where life and death blur together and the hope for a new horizon outweighs the need to exist. Alive or dead, it hardly matters.
    7nefeli9

    Beautiful monologues in a postapocalyptic landscape

    A woman navigates through a deserted city in a post-apocalyptic world: she remembers nothing about who she is or what happened. All she knows is she needs to keep walking. It's not clear what caused humanity to get to this point. She fights off enemies who try to kill her, she steals all the resources she can find and all this while we listen to a beautiful hazy internal monologue which is almost poetic. She then meets a man and forces him to help her get out of the city. He doesn't remember anything either: only that he must kill everyone he finds that is trying to survive. He continues the beautiful monologue while being lost himself. Together they struggle to survive, remember and find meaning in this. I liked how the film didn't follow the usual commercial line for post apocalyptic and sci fi movies. It left a lot for the viewer to interpret, the action was relatively slow and there weren't a lot of characters. At some points though, I wish the plot moved a little faster. Overall a really good movie that I suggest to anyone.
    9HiVita

    Greek Stalker

    Blade Runner meets Stalker. It's an unique, poetic, fascinating Sci-fi movie , which few viewers will appreciate. In an post-apocalyptic desolate world, a woman wanders trying to survive from the dark, the desolation and the morning patrol. The viewer will wander by woman's side to dark city's narrows and to beautiful landscapes, inspired from atmospheric music and pictures.
    6CetinTemel

    Nice try but still lacking the spirit of dystopia (or the way I want to imagine and see it)

    I have really mixed feelings about this film.

    First of all, I find the choice of Athens as a filming location for a science fiction movie a daring (though ultimately unsuccessful) attempt. The city, as a setting, looks completely undisturbed and normal, lacking even the slightest dystopian element, which caused me to lose interest in the movie after 30 minutes. Yes, the Greek sun (which I love dearly) accompanies almost everything in life greatly, but to a science fiction movie? I'm not that sure.

    And what about those endless references to other movies, those phone calls? Oh, oh... They were a burden to watch for me.

    These being said, the film made me think about so many things while watching it, and perhaps that was the trick and the magic of it.
    8HumanoidOfFlesh

    Elegiac post-apocalyptic dystopia.

    Post-apocalyptic wasteland somewhere in Greece.An unnamed female wanderer wants to reach the Sea.She attempts to traverse through decaying and crumbling nameless city where the members of Morning Patrol kill everyone they meet.Forbidden zone is extremely dangerous.But the woman manages to get help from a lonely guard in despair and so it begins their intimate link between love and death.Very moody and dark post-apocalyptic science-fiction/neo-noir flick with splendid location sets and dialogue excerpts taken from published works written by Daphne du Maurier,Philip K. Dick,Raymond Chandler and Herman Raucher.The plot moves slowly but visions of an abandoned dead-dripping city are mesmerizing.8 industrial collapses out of 10.

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      The movie sold 30,000 tickets. It came in 4th out of 20 movies.
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    • Release date
      • October 8, 1987 (Greece)
    • Country of origin
      • Greece
    • Language
      • Greek
    • Also known as
      • Morning Patrol
    • Filming locations
      • Athens, Greece
    • Production company
      • Greek Film Centre (GFC)
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      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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