The Apaches of Athens (Greece, 1930)
It is a 1930 Greek Silent film directed by Dimitrios Gaziadis. It was one of the first Greek Silent films to feature recorded sound via a gramophone. The method was also attempted by the film Astero. Apaches of Athens was produced by the DAG film company and is based on the 1921 operetta of the same name by Nikos Hadziapostolou and Yiannis Prineas. Yiannis Prineas appears in the film as the character Nikolas Karoubas. The term Apaches (απάχης) pronounced apaahes means gangster and the title is translated to gangster of Athens. The story is a romantic adventure about an Athenian gangster named Petros aka the Prince. His name in the original story was Kostas. The film was rebooted in 1950 produced by Olympia Film directed by Ilias Paraskevas and written by Yiannis Prineas.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apaches_of_Athens_(1930)



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