From The Edge of the City
Mythos Ltd.


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MPAA RATING: Not rated

Starring Simela Chartomatsidi, Vasias Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos Giannaris, and Kostas Gogos

17-year-old Sasha (Papadopolous) is the center of a gang of hustling kids who live on the drug infested fringes of Athens society. Kazakhstan refugees, they are shunned in their new homeland, even though they are ethnic Greeks.

GENRE(S):	Drama
WRITTEN BY:	Constantine Giannaris
DIRECTED BY:	Constantine Giannaris
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: August 28, 2001 Video: August 28, 2001 Theatrical: April 21, 2000
RUNNING TIME:	93 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	Greece
LANGUAGE(S):	Greek / Russian (with English subtitles)

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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Brutal yet lyrical film.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

It captures a gritty urban reality without moralizing or sentimentalizing its hapless young protagonist.

TV Guide Ken Fox

If it's not an entirely wholesome portrait of the immigrant experience, it's certainly an entertaining one.

LA Weekly Chuck Wilson

An impressive work that's ultimately undone by its excessive style.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Underdeveloped and badly diluted by overlong -- and overly stylized -- forays into the drug use, street hustling and cultural alienation that mostly affects the boys' friends.

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

Gratuitous, yes, but Giannaris has the visual finesse to make it work.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

All the jazzy effects and jumpy editing merely move us quicker to an otherwise predetermined tragedy.

Village Voice Dennis Lim

The viewer, though unavoidably alert, is before long too numb to care.

New York Post Hannah Brown

Feels like a Greek version of "My Own Private Idaho."