From the Edge of the City

Hanging out in the neighborhood; going to night-clubs and brothels; wandering along the avenues that lead to the heart of the city; committing petty thefts and getting picked up by men at Omonia Square; these are all elements that seem to bind together this small group of Russian refugees, living in the town of Menidi outside Athens.They came from Kazakhstan a few years ago, and the truth is that they feel excluded in their new homeland. Fuelled by their adolescence and feeling adventurous, they venture out to conquer the city that spreads out before them so invitingly. However, their lives, their values, and the blood and family ties that unite them will collapse as soon as they come in contact with the merciless world they so eagerly set out to conquer from the edge of the city.

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Direction: Constantine Giannaris
Script: Constantine Giannaris
Cinematography: Yorgos Argiroiliopoulos
Editing: Ioanna Spiliopoulou
Sound: Dinos Kittou
Actors: Stathis Papadopoulos, Costas Kotsianidis, Panayotis Hartomatzidis, Anestis Polychronidis
Production: Mythos Ltd, Rosebud, Hot Shot
Costumes: Sanny Alberti
Sets: Michalis Samiotis
Format: 35mm
Color: Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 1998
Duration: 94’

Constantine Giannaris

Filmography

1989 Jean Genet Is Dead (short)
1989 Disco’s Revenge (short, TV)
1990 Silences (short)
1990 Τrojans (short)
1991 A Matter of Life and Death (short, TV)
1991 Caught Looking (short)
1991 North of Vortex 
1991 Greeks (Greek Love and Sapphic Sophistication) (short, TV)
1992 A Desperate Vitality: The Films by Pier Paolo Pasolini (short)
1995 A Place in the Sun 
1995 3 Steps to Heaven 
1998 From the Edge of the City 
2001 One Day in August 
2004 Visions of Europe: Room for All (short) 
2005 Hostage 
2008 Gender Pop
2011 Man at Sea
2015 Spring Awakening