Proini peripolos (1987)

Director:

Nikos Nikolaidis

Writers:

Raymond Chandler (excerpt)
Philip K. Dick (excerpt)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot:

A woman is walking alone through an abandoned city. She approaches the forbidden zone and tries to pass through...

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Michele Valley	...	Woman
Takis Spiridakis	...	Guard
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Liana Hatzi
Nikos Hatzis
V. Kabouri
Takis Loukatos
H. Mavros
Panos Thanassoulis	...	2nd Guard
Rania Trivela

Also Known As:

Morning Patrol

Runtime:

108 min

Country:

Greece

Language:

Greek

Colour:

Colour

Filming Locations:

Athens, Greece

Company:

Greek Film Center

A post apocalyptic nightmare

It's the near future, and a catastrophe (plague, war, who knows?) has let the few survivors to wander aimlessly in the wild. One of them, a woman, wants only to "go West, to the sea" where she believes life could be better but in order to achieve that, she must go through a ghost city which is guarded by the Morning Patrol (Proini Peripolos).

Proini Peripolos is really far from Hollywood movies or blockbusters. It's just an artistic movie with slow pace and it's real power is the setting with grim pictures, atmospheric music and isolated landscapes. Try to find it if you can although the language (it's in Greek) will be a problem for foreign audiences.