Arpa Colla
1982 · 104 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 564 VOTES · DIR. Nikos Perakis
Overview
"Arpa-colla" in Greek literally means "Grab and stick", a phrase used to show something that has been done quickly and therefore isn't good enough. This is what the 2 main heroes of the film are doing. The one is a director(Giorgos) and the other an author(Kostas) with communistic ideas, who has won a prize at a festival. They both want to make a movie for the cinema. But every idea they have never comes true, because every time they meet someone to whom they tell their idea, they change their mind, and they want to make a totally different movie, ideas varying from political cinema to Greek historical dramas and modern films with motorcycle gangs. Not a bad attempt for the Greek cinema of the early 80's, which starts to wake up from the hibernation of the 70's.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,327 lines
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00:00:30 We want everything... everything...
00:04:27 Costas will make a film too. Feature length.
00:07:10 and you say you're still working on the script.
00:10:43 Where are you going'? The Japa- nese guy from Honda is coming.
00:14:25 Marilyn Monroe started as a model.
00:19:05 The new board judges only according to merit.
00:21:58 In your party, which films have been made'?
00:25:11 you waste your time with unio- nism and all this bullshit.
00:30:44 Come on, baby... Give them hell!
00:34:27 You want to abolish the union so you can make films?
00:37:52 Just "Martyrs"...
00:41:45 How about a whisky'?
00:46:23 That reminds me of the Junta tortures.
00:49:52 are the Right Wing and the Allies...
00:53:20 We even sold the olive grove in Metochi...
00:56:44 Antigone and lsmini are orphans, that is...
01:02:35 Shut your traps, you down there!
01:07:58 Bullshit!
01:11:18 He looks like you!
01:15:51 You know anybody in Police Headquarters'?
01:19:22 That reminded me of a story... A ship owner and a poor girl.
01:24:47 Stop!
01:30:56 Are they in'?
01:35:10 Comrades...