Film: Loafing and Camouflage, by Nikos Perakis

This cult film about group of soldiers, assigned to the Greek armed forces television station, is a hilarious comedy about the ingenious and wily machinations that individual characters resort to as they weather the dire straits of political oppression during their compulsory military service before and immediately after the Greek junta of 1967. Though their responsibilities require them to produce mostly propaganda films and newsreels, the soldiers have more creative ambitions so they ‘borrow’ the station’s cameras to produce a…porno movie, a cinematic genre which was, not so coincidentally, rather flourishing in the decade prior to the film’s own making in 1984. View film series.

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