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...
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Nikos Kalogeropoulos as Pvt Ioannis Papadopoulos
Giorgos Kimoulis as Pvt Ahilleas Labrou
Stavros Xenidis as Col A. Kontelis
Andreas Filippides as Lt. Col. Minas Katsabelas
Takis Spiridakis as Pvt Panagiotis Balourdos
Tania Kapsali as Emmanouela Dimaki
Hristos Valavanidis as Maj D. Karavidis
Antonis Theodorakopoulos as Captain
Fotis Polyhronopoulos as Pvt Michalis 'Karamazov' Karamanos
Nikos Tsachiridis as Staff Sergeant
Ifigeneia Makati as Katerina Papadopoulou
Giannis Hatzigiannis as Pvt Petros Savvidis
Paris Tselios as Pvt Marlafekas
Stavros Mavridis as Pvt Apostolis Apostolopoulos
Ira Papamichail as Soula
Rocky Taylor as Cindy
Dimitris Poulikakos as John Papaloukas
Michalis Maniatis as Mr. Karlatos
Nikos Alexiou as anchorman
Andonis Anastassakis as Military Policeman
Kostas Bakalis as Warrant Officer
Panayotis Botinis as souvlaki seller
Grigoris Danalis as priest
Costas Ferris as Mexican singer
Giannis Fyrios as retired Senior Officer
Pavlos Haikalis as cook
Margarita Labrinou as Mrs. Labrou
Vaggelis Liodakis as Repairman
Stelios Mainas as Military Canteen Operator
Yorgos Mavropsaridis as editor operator
Themis Panou as Barracks Manager
Kostas Papahristos as General
Pantelis Papakonstadinou as Guard
Gerasimos Skiadaresis as sound editor
Panagiotis Soupiadis as soldier
Yannis Totsikas as cinematographer
Giorgos Tsemperopoulos as Mexican singer
Vasiliki Rorri as Foteini Katsabela
Christoforos Nezer as Retired Officer
Constantine II of Greece as Himself (Archive)
Georgios Papadopoulos as Himself (Archive)
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