Parangelia (1980) poster
1980 · crime · true-story · rembetiko

Parangelia

Directed by Pavlos Tasios1h 27m1980
  • heavy
  • intense
  • bleak

The true story of Nikos Koemtzis, a man who stabbed three men to death in 1973 Athens for disrespecting his brother Demos' zeibekiko, a traditional Greek dance.

Our read · Parangelia (1980) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded crime · true-story · rembetiko entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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Antonis AntoniouAntonis KafetzopoulosKaterina GogouOlia LazaridouSofia Roubou
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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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