“I present the world with a very different approach, not as it was taught to us at school or in the army. I believe that each one has the right to see the society he lives in with his own particular view. I am, personally, more interested in Devil than God”- Elias Petropoulos. A restless and inquisitive spirit, a foe of academics and the status-quo, Petropoulos was the first folklorist in Greece, who dealt with social outcasts and described people and situations ignored by his country’s official history. Petropoulos takes us on a journey to unknown landscapes of our tradition and Greek-ness and acquaints us with all those people who belong to our social underground and who dominate his books. Rebetika musicians, bums, spivs, whores and homosexuals, people tormented and Greek-ness and acquaints us with all those people who belong to our social underground.
Elias Petropoulos
Aristeidis Antonas
Michalis Genitsaris
Yiorgos Kendros
Mine Kirikkanat
Nikos Koemtzis
Mary Koukoule
Faidon Koukoules
Jacques Lacarriere
Paola
Ilias Papadimitrakopoulos
Lakis Santas
Dimitris Souliotis
Kostas Tsoklis
Jacques Vallet
Vasilis Vasilikos