Sweet Gang (1983)

Original title

Γλυκιά Συμμορία

Directed by

Nikos Nikolaidis

Genre

art film

Country

Greece

Runtime

2h 32m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film is a Greek independent underground art film from 1983. It follows a group of outcasts struggling through the last decades of the 20th century. The story focuses on their lives and the harshness around them.

bleakslow-burncerebralunsettlinggrimrawatmosphericpsychologically intense

What happens

Sweet Bunch (Greek: Γλυκιά Συμμορία, romanized: Glykia Symmoria) is a 1983 Greek dramatic experimental independent underground art film directed by Nikos Nikolaidis. The film, produced by Vergeti Brothers and the Greek Film Center, is the second part of the "Years of Cholera" trilogy beginning with The Wretches Are Still Singing (1979) and ending with The Loser Takes It All (2002) which deals with the last decades of the twentieth century. The original Greek title directly references the Greek title of the 1969 Sam Peckinpah film The Wild Bunch (Greek: Άγρια Συμμορία, romanized: Agria Symmoria). The film uses as background music the 1958 song "Sugartime" written by Charlie Phillips and Odis Echols as well as the 1940 song "Sweet Mara" (Greek: «Γλυκιά Μαράτα,» tr. "Glykia Marata") composed by Leo Rapitis to lyrics by Kostas Kofiniotis which was performed by Kakia Mendri. It was distributed by the Greek Film Center in Greece and by Restless Wind abroad. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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