Wasted Youth (2011)

Directed by

Aryiris Papadimitropoulos, Jan Vogel

Genre

drama film

Country

Greece

Runtime

2h 02m

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two teenagers spend a day in Athens, where a chance encounter with a police officer leads to violence. The film is inspired by the 2008 killing of a student that sparked Greek riots.

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What happens

Wasted Youth is a Greek drama film from 2011, directed by Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel. It served as the opening film of the 2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film was inspired by the shooting of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, one of the events that led to the 2008 Greek riots. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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