Docville: 280 Constantinople St., Thessaloniki

280 Constantinople St., Thessaloniki is the first episode of Docville, a cinema-verite documentary series about urban life in Greece today, during a time of crisis: The people working at Zygos, a seedy cabaret in Thessaloniki, are all poor and have to struggle for their everyday survival. Waiters, bouncers, dancers and singers create a micro-society with its own rules on the margins of “respectable” society. They work hard at night trying to cope with the financial crisis. Aris is one of them. He is the “agent,” the traditional “male hero” of the Greek city. He is macho, but with kindness, humor and fine manners. There is hope within him, but at the same time he has the feeling of a void, a sense that he has wasted his life working at night. An endless night that vacillates dangerously between bravery and misery...

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Script: Yannis Missouridis

Cinematography: Yannis Missouridis

Editing: Chronis Theocharis, Yannis Missouridis

Sound: Antonis Samaras

Music: Word of Mouth (Vassilis Papoulias, Apostolis Pantoulas)

Production: Minimal Films, ΕΡΤ ΑΕ/ERT SA Hellenic Broadcasting Corp.

Producers: Marco Gastine

Format: DigiBeta Color

Production Country: Greece

Production Year: 2011

Duration: 46

Contact: ΕΡΤ ΑΕ/ERT SA Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. Fotini Yannoulatou T. +30 210 6075 711 F. +30 210 6075 714 salesdpt@ert.gr www.ert.gr Minimal Films Marco Gastine T.-F.+30 210 3606730 fminimal@otenet.gr

Yannis Missouridis

Filmography

2006 The Μeeting
2006 Living and Learning, The Gray Area
2006 Streets
2006 Protagonists
2009 Recounting
2010 Μieko (short)
2010 Lost Bodies (short)
2011 Ecological Diaries – Μeat, War of the Worlds
2011 Docville: 280 Constantinople St., Thessaloniki