Loafing and Camouflage (1984)

Comedy

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...

Cast

Pvt Ioannis Papadopoulos
Pvt Ahilleas Labrou
Katerina Papadopoulou
Pvt Petros Savvidis
Pvt Marlafekas
Pvt Apostolis Apostolopoulos
John Papaloukas
Mr. Karlatos
anchorman
Military Policeman
Col A. Kontelis
Warrant Officer
souvlaki seller
Mexican singer
‎retired‎ Senior Officer
Military Canteen Operator
editor operator
Lt. Col. Minas Katsabelas
Barracks Manager
‎cinematographer‎
Foteini Katsabela
Retired Officer
Pvt Panagiotis Balourdos
Himself (Archive)
Emmanouela Dimaki
Maj D. Karavidis
Pvt Michalis 'Karamazov' Karamanos
Staff Sergeant

Crew

Production Design
Assistant Director
Production Director
Production Director
Production Director