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This is not a film 'about' the rebetiko, the popular Greek song $par excellence$. Rather, it tries to record and convey its music, rhythms and movements in such a way that the filmic language and form take on the rhythms and poetry of the music itself. It allows the rebetiko to speak for itself. The film returns to the source of the rebetiko and tells its story, revealing a kind of parallel history of the country as well as the persistence of a myth. Essentially, however, the film shows how the rebetiko is sung, played, danced and watched by today's generation. Filmed in small taverns, harbours and prisons, $Ways of Rebetiko$ creates an imaginary map of the rebetiko, a world of memory and desire, a multifaceted and multilayered collage of times and places, where the voices of the greatest $rebetes$ echo in the sound and fury of Modern Greece.
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