Loafing and Camouflage
1984 · 99 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 3,749 VOTES · DIR. Nikos Perakis
Overview
The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV station, founded for the civilian population, was run by the Cinematographic Unit of the army which until then had only produced propaganda films and newsreels and was responsible for entertaining the troops and other charity organizations with movie screenings. The personnel was composed mostly of soldiers, who already had experience in the film business in their civilian lives, as well as those who received their training in the army. The story may be only 95% true, but that is simply because the true story is even more absurd...
Dialogue Timeline — 1,105 lines
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00:00:44 All yours!
00:06:24 -You are...? -Papadopoulos, Yannis.
00:09:43 Absent but accounted for 5! On report 3!
00:13:03 Conduct rather bad...
00:17:09 who escaped communism to serve his country.
00:20:41 Out of quarters all the time!
00:24:11 The chocolate ones, on the right...
00:28:34 Are we going to the studio?
00:32:21 Who's that?
00:35:34 Dostoyevsky’s hero... ''Crime and Punishment'', sir...
00:38:48 Can we use some Greek expression to describe it?
00:43:05 Lambrou... KarIatos' card. Ready?
00:49:09 Business with Lambrou, eh?
00:52:40 The MPs! Duck!
00:57:19 and following the Government’s recommendation...
01:01:39 he pointed out that the communist danger...
01:05:14 What will you do with her?
01:08:36 We don't know... Maybe another coup!
01:11:46 Are you sure we're accounted for?
01:15:28 No problem...
01:19:12 What happened to your long hair?
01:22:18 Only the others were smarter and beat him to it!
01:26:41 Extract from the order of the day...
01:31:02 I'll be driving her with my cab after my discharge.