TETAPTH 04:45

	Also Known As: Wednesday 04:45
	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Alexis Alexiou
	Actors: Stelios Mainas, Dimitris Tzoumakis, Mimi Branescu
	Country: GR, D, IL
	Genre: Drama, Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 25.01.2016, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, Greek/Romanian version with German subtitles
Synopsis: Stelios (Mainas) is the owner of a Jazz Club in Athens. A few years ago, through the help of his former associate Vassos (Tzoumakis), Stelios received a business loan from the Romanian in order to renovate his club. In 2010, the recession finds Stelios on the brink of bankruptcy unable to repay the loan. The Romanian (Branescu) meets with Stelios and gives him one day to come up with a solution. In a vortex of adultery, drug abuse, violence, guilt and self-deceit, Stelios has a few hours left to save his club, salvage his crumbling marriage, battle the mafia loan-sharks, baptize his employee's kid and show up at school to receive his son's report card as a responsible parent.
Review: With the crisis as background the movie shows also the core of the Greek problem, being the by-passing of state and banks. Because there is no bank able to support the businessme in Greece, these have to find other ways. And then they have also the usual problems of family and work balance. Ok. This does not make a big suspense in the pitch. The movie is also quite basic. The acting and the directing too.  When actually the pitch sells the movie as black comedy, and you loose hours to find some humour, I found out some only in the picture of the Greek crisis. Well, this is not much to make me laugh as it is in background but there must be three connotations to it only.
Rating: 2 /10