"Based on a true story of 1973" "The Personal Request" "25th of March" "I want to talk in a cafe whose door is wide open" "no "sea" around just dust, sun, silence, and unemployed men." "The sun entering the cognac, the dust with cigarete smoke entering our lungs..." "Let's not take precautions for our health today brother, no more of your advices on how I swallow the liquor like that." "Let run on my face, the make-ups, the tears, the mucuses." "Just watch clalmly my nails, my hair, and these dirty times." "Me not giving a shit for all these, only caring for the damn political party." "And you be a friend, a friend, a friend the way Kazantzides says." "And the cognac be a total shit" "There's a room for illegal immigrands upstairs," "I 'll explain you later." "What would you do if you you ever had nothing like them." "But YOU will never be like them you said, you will rise and dance at a Personal Request," "holding my mind in your palms with love and care." "Oh my brains are about to explode, it hurts." "And when they come telling you:" "Here's not the right place or time for such things, pull out the knife and wipe them all off." "Why you want to go to bouzoukia?" "Why not go somewhere else to eat?" "Come on Kate, ever since you got married, you became milksops" "Really, is that what the other "brothers" say?" "The "who"?" "The "little brothers" I said." "Besides, are these really folkloric music places?" "Put on a cassette please." "Do you have any modern ones?" "Well guys?" "Oh come on...." "(Song) Your black eyes dazzle me.." "Don't belittle me today Demo" "I will pay the bill at bouzoukia today." "When have I ever bilittled you man?" "Bye." "It's full" "What ?" "Guys, he says it's full!" "Is it full only for us?" "Our money don't worth the same?" "Forget it Nico, let's go elsewhere" "Hold on, he almost bowed to those who got in before." "Why these manners my friend?" "We want to see ourselves if it's full or not." "Why don't you leave peacefully?" "Are you the one who beats?" "If needed..." "Ok, let me have a look inside." "I am serious." "Stop playing the tough guy and leave." "No more troubles please." "Please calm down, please take the girls, you can go in." "Ok, ok it's over then..." "Get in." "Your friend is shaking a lot." "Is he gay?" "Don't know, you men know better." "That really hurt him...." "Don't shout, we can hear you" "Hi Kate, I like you 'cause you are cool." "Both you and your man" "Cheers." "My gorgeous, lucky the one who enjoys you." "Bravo." "All people can now dance" "Girls, come" "Get up man, are we paying here or not?" "Leave them, let's dance Kate" "You dead people" "Wow, we got ridiculed" "To whom man?" "Who you think are all these in here?" "Loneliness.." "doesn't have the sad eye colour of a cloudy mistress" "doesn't move around shaking her ass, in dancing halls and frozen museums" "is not yellow memorabillia, and mothballs in granny's chests, violet headbands or leghorns," "doesn't spread her legs giggling, sighing, wearing matching pants" "Loneliness... has the colour of the Pakistanis" "and it's countable by each plate of food, and his teared off pieces at the bottom of the light vent." "Waits patiently in queu, at Bournazi, Ayia Varvara, Kokkinia," "Toumpa, Stavroupoli, Kalamaria." "Under all wheather, with sweated head" "screams on ejaculating, wraps the windows with chains, seizes production plants, sets properties on fire, it's a prison visiting card on Sundays, same prison yard for both the criminals and revolutionists it's been sold and bought at slavemarkets with every minute, every breath," "it's happening very very near, weak up early in the morning, wake up to see it." "She is the whore of the slams, the night torture of the soldiers, the last few endless kilometers in the highway, carrying meat from Bulgaria" "And when her blood can hold no longer, seeing her kind getting sold out cheap, she dances barefoot Zeimbekiko on the tables, holding a veeeery well grinded axe." "Lineliness, our Loneliness, our very own I say, is an axe in our hands, that spins on top of your heads, spins, and spins, and spins..." "You drink a lot." "Sorry?" "I said, you drink a lot." "Why?" "Don't you know?" "They are Policemen" "I know" "Pay no attention." "I beg you man." "Bravo guys very nice." "Now it's a tough time." "George will dance, nobody else." "Only George." "I told you from the very beginning." "Be carefull with me" "Really?" "Why?" "Because I might cut you" "Is this how you will keep me?" "Just yesterday you were telling me you love me, and we were making plans to leave for abroad." "I can't do it." "Aren't you the one who convinced me to leave this fucking place?" "What's changed and you are selling me now?" "You are drunk, leave me alone." "Who are those inside?" "Speak up." "We'll talk later." "They are Police." "How do you know them?" "Speak up damn it, or I kill you" "The tall one is a frend of my nefew." "I just saw him once" "Are those the ones who arrested your mother?" "No." "The truth, tell me the truth." "They scared you huh?" "Your pimp nefew prefers you become a whore than my wife." "It's me who doesn't want you anymore." "The hell your mother and you." "You prefer the cops and the pimps damn it." "It's me who doesn't want you anymore." "I am getting destroyed with you." "I want to go home." "You will go nowhere." "Are you threatening me?" "I am already an outcast." "You are pushing me, and I may kill you." "So you are indeed threatening me." "There is Police around you know." "So you call them." "You too." "I tell you I love you and you want to call the Police." "Call them, call them..." "Nico stop, you will kill her." "You are not a real man if you beat women." "Together we came, together we 'll go, ok?" "Go Vango, take her and leave." "Let's go home please." "I will take them home and come back ok?" "Bring a bottle" "Goodnight." "What a life!" "Do we have to go back?" "Yes." "But they might have already gone." "Nope." "I am not selling my friends like the little bitch did." "Oh come on." "Just now that he needed her." "When you tell someone you love him, this is the time to stand by him." "So she should get destroyed as well?" "Move let's go." "The guy has always been a "Robin Hood", do you know what that means?" "It means to support others." "I was always telling him to hold back until we got out of prison." "He wouldn't listen." "He is now targeted, how can he flourish?" "If only your father was alive..." "Go to sleep mum." "How will we survive you feather brained?" "Now that you messed up with this criminal..." "You learned very well my nefew's lesson, right?" "Your nefew's?" "Aren't you ashamed talking like that for this holly boy?" "Ha, ha the police informer is now called a holly boy!" "Shut up!" "Shame on you." "Who is the one who cares for you idiot?" "Ok,ok.." "Wake up from dawn and go work at the factory to see what it means." "Ok shut up...." "Ok cut it off at last.Go for sleep, leave me alone." "We already parted... what else do you want?" "When I got out of prison in October," "I met my father in the street, by pure chance you know." "He said "be careful"" "I said "I 'll leave"" "Where will you go he said?" "Wherever you go the files will follow." "You be careful." "Straighten up, be a respectable man." "Too late for that, I said." "Do you get me?" "Within 3 million people, I met my father by chance." "Are we brothers or not?" "We are!" "You are stubborn too, a real Macedonian." "Ahuh!" "Those over there know me." "They do know me, I tell you." "Some of those bastards came at home and told me straight:" "We got you poor man." "Either you become an informer, or else..." "My life is a prison either I am inside, or out." "Will you dance for me?" "I 'll set a Personal Request." "For us only." "I 'll dance, but we 'll then leave." "OK?" ""Parangelia" now." "A Special Request." "(Narrator's poetic language follows)" "Our life is knife stubs in dirty dead end roads rotten teeth, washily slogans, deep vestiary smells of urine, antiseptics, and sperms" "teared posters, everything a mess, a mess in Patision avenue." "Patision IS our life." "We always there, skinny travellers all our lives on route to there," "Humiliation- loneliness-desparation." "And vice versa." "Alright." "We are not crying anymore." "We grew up." "Only when it rains, we secretely suck our finger, and smoke" "Our life is meaningless gaspings, in prefixed labour strikes, among ruffians and police patrols" "That's why I am telling you, next time they shoot on us, we must not run away, we must strike back," "We shall not sell our flesh cheap." "Gentlemen, we said that was a Parangelia, a personal request." "Are you looking for trouble mister?" "This is a personal request." "A personal requeeeeest" "Catch them." "Get in, move it, to Votanikos." "Sir, that one was with them." "Officer, bring that one here." "What happened?" "Why are you grapping me like that?" "Stop here." "Leave, nobody's going to hurt you, you 've done nothing wrong." "Go, damn it." "See you." "Move." "Who hit you?" "What happened to you?" "It's nothing, but Nicos is in trouble." "Did you fight at the Bouzoukia?" "Answer me!" "Where will you go?" "Away." "Why?" "Cause they will come here." "Who?" "There has been a massacre." "Wasn't I telling you to leave?" "Where are you going?" "I don't know." "It's over." "That was all." "My life's been wasted among sick people, dirty windows, and endless compromises." "I started bending like that little willow," "that I showed you at the corner of the road." "What happened here?" "Go, go." "It's over that was all." "Not that I want to live, fucking shit it's because I never lived, and will never see you again." "So where shall we go?" "Just continue." "These just came out of bouzoukia, totally drunk" "All the tramps of Athens." "I can't understand why they don't shut them all down." "What do you think?" "Whores, cutthroats, shipowners in there" "People out there starve, and they just have fun" "That's what they like, they say" "Excuse me my friend, I don't know your personal opinion, but can you really call this "entertainement of the people"?" "To surgery room immediately." "Have you seen everything?" "Of course!" "I 've been in this job for so many years, never seen such a thing." "Have you been hurt?" "Fortunately no." "But so many people died for no reason." "So he was killing just for no reason?" "Of course not!" "Is this recording?" "Yes." "For the personal request?" "Just because they hurt his pride?" "We have a lot of experience with such people." "Special Request for them, means, now it's ME, only ME dances,only ME shows off, the wise guy.." "In my opinion Charon got out to mow tonight." "What's the matter?" "We have to talk." "Right now?" "Yes now." "Sit." "2 am..." "OK Speak." "You have to take me out of here." "To where?" "Africa, Itally, anywhere." "So why should we talk about it now?" "Because by tomorrow I must be gone." "What have you done?" "Will you take me out, yes or not?" "We will take care of it dear Nicos but these things need time and ....money" "You will get paid." "It's not me that you have to pay." "Call them." "Alright." "I hope you don't do anything stupid." "Oh, come on man." "Murder?" "Nondas here." "It's an emergency." "You have to load one of my people." "Tomorrow." "Case is clean, don't worry." "Portsight?" "When?" "Ok..." "I will call you again at 7." "You heard..." "At 7 o'clock then." "So you went out to have fun right?" "Yes." "And how often do you go to Bouzoukia huh?" "Why did you leave?" "I took the ladies home." "And then returned to help him, right?" "I had absoluttely no idea of what had happened in there." "Explain why you left, and then came back." "We 've been friends..." "I mostly associate with Nicos" "How long are you friends?" "Three." "He was working at a commercial company lately." "We associated." "Did you know he was carrying a knife?" "Long time ago... he was telling me..." "I saw it once, that is." "How long ago was he carrying it?" "The 2nd time he got out of prison... said he was afraid... that's why" "I am ceratain though that Nicos is not the type of man who strikes first." "The truth is he had drank a lot" "Earlier they had a fight with Roula." "His girlfriend... his woman" "She shaked her body a bit more" "other men kept staring at her... well his mind blurred" "He told her to leave." "That's why I carried all women home." "Then it seems.... the personal request... what happens if someone messes up..." "Unbeleivable things already happened so many times.." "Anyway he was always saying, "I am finished", " I have nowhere to go"..." "Of course that's no excuse to take it off on others." "So you don't know where he's hiding, do you?" "But when I returned they have already gone." "I record everything you say." "Do you know?" "Officer he and I were together when it happened." "Besides I hardly know them" "Have you heard him earlier saying he would slaughter people tonight?" "They were not talking much with me." "No I haven't heard." "However you went to bouzoukia with them" "I don't really like bouzoukia." "But since the whole company wanted to go there, I had no choice." "We got out to have some fun, that's all." "Do you work?" "We are planning to get married soon so no I am not working now." "Nobody will escape" "There won't be even half a "NO" for this massacre." "We will be sinking, and sinking... in syphilitic waters with no end on sight." "Excommunications and hits on the head, from the diamond crosses of our transvestite fathers" "Asslicking, signing, begging, and screaming rotten "YES"es, "YES", "YES", "YES"..." "Where are they going man, what do they want?" "Nobody will escape, Nobody will escape, Nobody will escape...." "We will be sinking." "We are sinking." "We will be sinking, we are sinking..." "Asslicking, signing, begging, and screaming rotten "YES"es, "YES", "YES", "YES"..." "What do you want?" "Where is he?" "Don't know." "Who?" "You are hiding them." "You know where they are..." "We were sleeping." "You were sleeping?" "First you slaughter people and then you sleep?" "Tell me quickly where they are." "Speak up!" "I don't know." "Where did they go?" "I know they passed from here." "Speak up or else I 'll shut you in." "I don't know, I don't know" "You are covering murderers." "I don't know, shut me in, I don't know." "So where shall we go my friend, it's dawn already." "Go to Votaniko." "Rich record..." "Thefts, deceptions, Martial Courts." "Violence against a higher ranker, 2 convictions." "Any news Mr Manoulako?" "Nothing yet." "Who are our men?" "A sergeant, and an officer of the13th division." "Both dead, right?" "Yes." "How did they got messed up there?" "They were entertaining themselves by the time the assault occured." "Entertaining?" "While on duty?" "Off duty Sir." "We have witnesses confirming that the attitute of the Policemen.... (sigh)" "Watch out the journalists." "They are capable of turning those murderers into heroes." "How much do I owe you my friend?" "720." "Excuse me my friend, anything's wrong?" "No, nothing." "Bye." "There's no escape." "I will be working until you get out." "What happened is over." "Too much smoke in here." "Press distribution" "Morning." "Cigarettes and sports paper" "What happened Thanasis, have you read it?" "Just had a glance." "They slaughtered each other again, huh?" "World is turning worse every day." "We run out of cigarettes as well..." "After I go buy some, I 'll call my friend." "You will leave man, don't worry." "Quickly, give me cigarettes Thanasi." "Manslaughter for a Personal request." "And call the police." "Don't talk to me, hold me the cigarettes" "I have him in my house." "Who, the murderer?" "Yes." "He is watching us." "Call the Police immediately." "Do you want?" "No." "Coffee?" "Call your friend." "Ok, ok." "It's me.." "My man is here wating." "Today!" "We will come there in an hour." "We will go to the harbour to load you." "After about an hour..." "We 've been friends in the past." "We ' ve done dirty bussiness together as well." "Nobody is a saint in this society..." "Your businness have flourished though..." "You know, one thing I cannot stand is betrayal." "Unfortunately they have targetted you...." "Don't betray me." "Son of a bitch!" "It's over, give up." "It's been over a long time ago for me." "You come and get me now." "Come, come.." "Why don't you surrender Nico, my son?" "What do you want?" "Kill me to get this over." "Your brother surrendered by himself." "He understood." "Strike me I tell you." "Are you afraid?" "You'll make me shoot you." "Be sure you aim well." "Here, here." "Kill me you ruffian, kill me to have your society cleaned up..." "you shitty man, strike me." "Hit me man." "Not on the leeegs!" "Sometimes the door opens, and you get in." "You wear an all white suit, and linen shoes." "You bend over, affectionately put 72 bucks in my palm, and then leave." "I stayed at the same possition, so you can find me again." "But it seems too much time must have past, 'cause my nails got very long, and my friends get scared of me." "I cook potatoes every day, I cook potatoes every day," "I 've lost my imagination, I 've lost my imagination," "And when I hear "Katerina" I get scared, when I hear "Katerina" I get scared," "(because) I think, I must betray someone." "I 've kept some newspaper clippings, about someone, who as they say, it's you." "I know the newspapers are lying, 'cause they say they shot you on the legs." "I know they never aim at the legs." "They always target the brains." "Be careful, heh." "What do you want?" "This gentleman is a lawyer." "I don't need him." "Tell him to defend Demos." "The trial will start soon." "You must decide quickly." "Did you come to help me or them?" "You are the one in need." "That's why I came." "Too late." "All these in here must now do their duty." "If you accept the defence, and speak properly, we may save you." "Save me from what?" "I don't understand." "You committed the murders, and you don't accept any help?" "Listen Mr lawyer, both you and all others:" "I did what I did, and I will pay for it." "And I am not afraid to pay." "Learn that I have decided to signal myself the excecution squad." "You all, save yourselves anyway you like." "Don't cry Demos, you are a man." "This is not the proper way to talk." "Neither is there any "proper way" for you..." "What do you want, idiot?" "He is oblidged to." "Whyyyy?" "He asks "why"!" "Explain why." "Why?" "Because he must live." "He must try, like all the people do every day." "I had hard times too." "But I stood firm." "I am his father, I stood firm, I have a clean record." "Aren't you ashamed man?" "Only my heart knows how I feel seeing you in this position...." "You were the one who raised us..." "Haven't you regreted for anything?" "Not even now?" "While you regretted, and you made everything brilliant!" "You took up the guns, went to the mountains, to fix this world.." "and then you kneeled in front of THEM... and begged for mercy." "I was forced to...." "So now you want to force me to bend as well?" "Don't play the heroe." "You are not a heroe." "Times will change." "Remember this Maria." "Do you remember Maria, that relay race we were playing at school holding the baton?" "Forget about me." "Don't cry." "You are the hope!" "Listen, there will be times that children will be choosing who their parents will be." "They won't be coming out by chance." "There won't be closed doors, with bent people outside." "And we will be choosing what job we will be doing." "They won't be checking "our teeth" anymore as if we were horses." "Just imagine, people will be talking using colours, some others using music." "Just keep inside a big bottle, words and meanings like these:" "Unadapted, oppression, loneliness, price, profit, humiliation." "For use at History lessons." "They are hard times now Maria, more difficult ones will follow." "Don't expect too much from me." "That much I know, that much I tell." "And from all those things I learned here's a precious one:" "It's important that you keep your humanity up high." "We will change the world." "Despite of all these Maria...."