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.
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
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