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Morning Patrol

Going alone into an abandoned, living city, a woman tries to cross a forbidden zone swarming with the Morning Patrol and traps. Meeting one of the last city guards, they attempt recall the past and penetrate the zone together.

Thessaloniki Film Festival 1987 | Winner: Best Director Nikos Nikolaidis

beautifully composed, Tarkovsky-esque Mark Cole, Rivets on the Poster

taking dialogue excerpts from the works of Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep [1939]), Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?[1968]; Ubik [1969]), Daphne du Maurier (Rebecca [1938]) and Herman Raucher (Summer of 42 [1971]), the story poetically evolves in front of our eyes with a truly nightmarish, dystopian fashion and an unusual thriller element added for good atmospheric measure. Edgar Cochran, letterboxd

That this masterpiece is so unknown undistributed throughout all the world, as far as I know, besides Greece is nothing short of criminal. In terms of tone, its most comparable to a slower, more elegiac Blade Runner theres the same pervading sense of despair, of a deep, dark curtain coming down on the world. propast, imdb