Новая коварная игра с основным инстинктом в стильном фильме — интригующей истории страсти, обмана и мести. Спасаясь от возможных обвинений в организации убийства своего мужа, Бриджет покидает США и уезжает в Барселону. Поскольку между Америкой и Испанией нет договора о выдаче преступников, она считает себя в безопасности. Но Бриджет не приняла во внимание упорство родителей ее любовника, обвиненного в убийстве и отбывающего срок в тюрьме. Совершенной неожиданностью для нее оказалось появление в Барселоне нанятой ими частной сыщицы Мерфи, сорвавшей хитроумный план Бриджет, придуманный в ее фирменном стиле. Но Бриджет, обладающая исключительным инстинктом выживания, принимает брошенный ей вызов. И затевает новую интригу, чтобы подставить и Мерфи, и своего нового дружка Троя.
A gifted electrician, Michalis Karamanos works for Greek Telecommunications Organization and it seems that he is the only one who hasn't been completely absorbed by the corrupt and all-devouring system. Acting as a member of the revolutionary organization Constitutional Struggle, which is fighting against the unpopular policy of the government, he connects the computer of the director of OTE to an explosive device. He threatens to destroy the telecommunications of the country if he is not allowed to broadcast on television his revolutionary message during the broadcast of an important football game. The Authorities, thinking that he has gone crazy, try to bring him around using his old friends from the army, whom they pick up one by one as intermediaries. This is a situation comedy with excellent, mature plot development, plenty of suspense as well as masterful criticism of sociopolitical reality.
The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV station, founded for the civilian population, was run by the Cinematographic Unit of the army which until then had only produced propaganda films and newsreels and was responsible for entertaining the troops and other charity organizations with movie screenings. The personnel was composed mostly of soldiers, who already had experience in the film business in their civilian lives, as well as those who received their training in the army. The story may be only 95% true, but that is simply because the true story is even more absurd...
"Arpa-colla" in Greek literally means "Grab and stick", a phrase used to show something that has been done quickly and therefore isn't good enough. This is what the 2 main heroes of the film are doing. The one is a director(Giorgos) and the other an author(Kostas) with communistic ideas, who has won a prize at a festival. They both want to make a movie for the cinema. But every idea they have never comes true, because every time they meet someone to whom they tell their idea, they change their mind, and they want to make a totally different movie, ideas varying from political cinema to Greek historical dramas and modern films with motorcycle gangs. Not a bad attempt for the Greek cinema of the early 80's, which starts to wake up from the hibernation of the 70's.
