An ordinary day in Athens. Haris, a teenager, has spent the night with one of his mother's friends. His mother is in hospital, but he doesn't really want to go there; all he does is argue with his father. He usually spends his days with his friends. Vasilis, on the other hand, is somewhere in his late 30s or early 40s. He has a wife and a daughter, and his mother also lives with them. Vasilis works nights and doesn't seem satisfied with life - but he can't bring himself to break out either. Early the next morning, their paths cross ...
Wasted Youth is characterized by an aesthetically irritating juxtaposition: local originality meets cool cosmopolitanism. Little happens, but it happens with a good move and momentum. The insurmountable class antagonisms of a corrupt and bankrupt state become visible. At the end, there is a sudden escalation of violence. Then the movie races backwards through memory, everything looks different - only cracks remain. Argyris Papadimitropoulos, born in Athens in 1976, studied media and film in Athens and, after various short films, made his successful first feature Bank Bang (2008). Jan Vogel, born in Ecuador in 1973, grew up in Hamburg. He works as a cameraman and filmmaker in Berlin.
