Kleftroni kai gentleman (1986) User Reviews

Somewhat weak

[Der_Schnibbler · 4/10 · 24 October 2012]

Like other of Psaltis' films, the pretext for this comedy was a critique of 1980s Greece, this time unemployment.

The film begins with Psaltis ecstatic that he has finally got his university degree in hand. He skips home to show it off to his mother and then...finds himself unemployed. His mother insists he get married and have children so that he may receive state benefits but, wouldn't you know it, Stathis is in love with a girl who is engaged to a petty thief disguised as sensitive aesthete.

Unfortunately, this film is nowhere near as well made or well-paced as "Kamikaze, agapi mou" which came out three years earlier. The slapstick and dirty words of phrase for which Psaltis is known are there as always, but the story is just thin and weak. At times, the movie just drags.

Fans will enjoy it, but it's far from the quality of "Kamikaze, agapi mou" or "Vasika... kalispera sas."

Worth to see it again and again!

[misel982001 · 10/10 · 4 January 2008]

This time Stathis Psaltis falls in love with Effie Pikoula (and not with Kaiti Finou). The pace of this film is faster than we have used before and Psaltis gives his best self. Again we meet some very important elements of the Greek society in the 80's: Punk boys and their girls, bikes, hard talking(!) disco dance, strong nightlife,the -then- new problem of unemployment for the bachelors and of course family issues such as marriage and matchmaking! Everything is just there! The flayer that says: "MARINA I LOVE YOU,FIGHT IS NOT OVER" has became legendary and many teens of that time did the same as Psaltis! Worth every second of it to watch and for some to remember how Greece was and how it has become...