Here's a weird one: In a dystopian Greece, a travel agent witnesses a man avoid secret police by jumping to his death. The next day while sitting in a café, someone steps on the travel agent's foot and the next thing you know he's being arrested for reason's unknown...
The travel agent, Georgis, is grilled by the 'director' about why he was in the café and the man he was meeting, and is sent cross country with two agents, the 'investigator', and the 'manager' (Mario Adorf). These three head on out for a road trip, with Georgis protesting his innocence, and the agents trying to cover up the fact that the guy who stood on his toe has been killed by accident and cannot prove his innocence.
Although it just kind of takes place in seventies Europe, the air of distrust and paranoia amongst everyone is conveyed pretty well, and nothing is quite as it seems. The agent's car breaks down, Adorf has to go off on business. It seems that every opportunity to escape is presented to Georgis on purpose, but why? Just when you think you've got it figured out, the film takes another twist in a different direction.
It's almost a three character-play, with Adorf being the rough but loyal agent, and the investigator possibly being full of doubts (he's the guy who basically let the guy jump to his death at the start of the film). It's not exactly action packed, but does pick up as the film continues, and it's worth watching to the end. I thought so anyway.
The travel agent, Georgis, is grilled by the 'director' about why he was in the café and the man he was meeting, and is sent cross country with two agents, the 'investigator', and the 'manager' (Mario Adorf). These three head on out for a road trip, with Georgis protesting his innocence, and the agents trying to cover up the fact that the guy who stood on his toe has been killed by accident and cannot prove his innocence.
Although it just kind of takes place in seventies Europe, the air of distrust and paranoia amongst everyone is conveyed pretty well, and nothing is quite as it seems. The agent's car breaks down, Adorf has to go off on business. It seems that every opportunity to escape is presented to Georgis on purpose, but why? Just when you think you've got it figured out, the film takes another twist in a different direction.
It's almost a three character-play, with Adorf being the rough but loyal agent, and the investigator possibly being full of doubts (he's the guy who basically let the guy jump to his death at the start of the film). It's not exactly action packed, but does pick up as the film continues, and it's worth watching to the end. I thought so anyway.