Looking for Info. Re ; Greek Movie I saw years ago ; Art-Cinema Connoisseuring TV.com Posters may know

[Our Man in the Tropics]

Dear Fellow Thaivisa.com Posters,

 

Per average of 1 night per year in the last decade, I have tried exhaustively for information on a movie that I viewed some 30 years ago, & it probably a movie even 40 years old, but to no avail.

I am almost sure that it is Greek movie.

 

Originally, I was flipping between channels & increasingly settled into being absorbed by the plot of an art-house movie in English sub-titles.

 

Middle aged male is being constantly & increasingly harassed & sabotaged by a ruthless gang in his efforts to do his work as self-employed furrier [ processor of the fur skins of perhaps mink rats for purpose of making fur coats ]

He has an ally & friend helping him.

 

The portrayal frequently shows these friends traveling at fast speeds along winding & narrow roads on dangerous mountain & cliff edges with sheer deep falls into the sea.

 

On yet another such determined drive the friend I think claims need that they stop immediately ;

Something to do with mechanical fault with the car perhaps.

 

The furrier is outside taking a break in the middle of the lonely road in the brilliant white landscape ;

Suddenly, the friend starts presses the accelerator & proceeds to deliberately mow down the furrier killing him ;

And, I think the furrier is shown in shock facing his friend about to drive over him.

 

Then the friend stops the car, & goes forth to the furrier so as to make sure that he is dead.

Upon being satisfied of this outcome, he walks to the camera ;

 

The viewer is naturally even more shocked that the friend starts speaking directly to the viewer ;

He says that he had to kill him ;

Because he said that the harassment & intimidation by the gangsters was destroying his good friend, the furrier, & that there was no way the furrier could win.

 

There is a Moral Lesson being imparted here ;

 

"In some situations,- u simply cannot win ;

U must simply, concede defeat, & go away."

 

Then, u having taken on board this powerful message,- the speaker turns away from talking to u the viewer.

 

Film ends.

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This movie is on my mind often over many years.

The screenwriter & / or director are obviously not endorsing what the friend did to the furrier ;

But, rather through this device in the story, they illustrate how perverse the situation was enduring the evil, & persistent, formidable gangster attackers, & then the wisdom of recognizing that one must concede defeat & leave.

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Here is hoping that this recall strikes a bell with whomsoever can help.

 

Thanking u,

 

Our Man in the Tropics

Edited October 10, 2017 by Our Man in the Tropics

[daveAustin]

I fotografia?

 

IMDB:

Ilias Apostolou, a young furrier who has had a hard time under the dictatorship, leaves Castoria in 1971 to emigrate to France, where he hopes to join a distant relative of his, Gerassimos Tzivas, who has been living there since 1950. With him, he takes nothing from his homeland but a photograph of a person that he finds on the pavement. He asks Gerassimos to help him in finding work in Paris. A misunderstanding around the photograph, however, sets off a series of dramatic events...

 

 

[Our Man in the Tropics]

Hi Dave,

 

Looks promising because of the photo of the 2 men ;

They look very similar in my recollection.

 

However, the partial description of the plot indicates that it will not arrive to including that which I wrote.

Yet, I think it is the very film.

Noteworthy that this movie has a quite high ranking by IMDB ;

That is a good portent for my mission.

 

I gave up being a movie buff years ago ;

But, from sample of movies that I did see, I think it might be fair to say that some very good cinema has come out of Greece.

 

e.g.

 

The Beekeeper

 

What do u think ?

 

And, I thought very highly of a Turkish movie years ago too ; Yol.

 

 

And, then over more yonder, Iranian cinema is raved about ;

But, I never got the chance to view.

 

OK, I am now in process of chasing ur prompt.

 

I will report back in at earliest conclusion.

 

Cheers, Dave

 

Our Man in the Tropics

[Our Man in the Tropics]

Bingo, Dave,

 

Thank u very much.

 

Here is link which confirms for me that ur suggestion is the very movie ;

 

https://books.google.co.th/books?id=328oUbR8iT0C&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&dq=I+fotografia+greek+movie&source=bl&ots=NozfkgJvKk&sig=vtBGocVcAFMiFJCE9XG2Po_FUiY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNlMuI1ubWAhWJFJQKHfB_DpkQ6AEIWzAI#v=onepage&q=I fotografia greek movie&f=false

 

However my television viewing recollection does not really correlate with the overall plot & underlying themes ;

I being of more innocent mind, ... then at least 8-) ; LOS is certainly an eye-opener.

 

Perhaps, I should devise my own screenplay & movie on what I thought "I fotografia" was about.

 

Thanks again, Dave.

 

Regards,

 

Our Man in the Tropics

Edited October 10, 2017 by Our Man in the Tropics

[daveAustin]

No worries, glad I could help. Never seen it myself but the internet being as all-encompassing as it is now, it's all out there... just takes some narrowing down to find stuff. I was after a movie for years and only fairly recently re-discovered it, which I probably never could have without the interwires. When Wolves Cry, or The Christmas Tree, with William Holden. Classic.

[oldhippy]

While on the subject of Greek movies:

You may want to listen to the song first:

 

 

 

Never on sunday with Melina Mercouri - English subtitles, free on youtube.

Melina later became minister of Culture - take that Kobkarn.