An atmosphere of violence and paranoia pervades Peter Fleischmann’s 1975 thriller Weak Spot from its opening shot, in which a nameless man commits suicide by jumping from a balcony rather than going with the military secret police. The nature of his suspected crime is never revealed, and when, just a few minutes later, Georgis (Ugo Tognazzi) is arrested on suspicion of conspiring with a political subversive merely because of his reaction when the man stepped on his foot, it’s clear that truth and justice are malleable in the hands of these secret police.
Weak Spot is set during a seven-year period in Greece that began with its right-wing military junta putting a group of power-hungry colonels in charge of the country. And while it’s focused on the sense of fear, disorientation, and mistrust that accompanied this period of scaremongering and rampant torture of innocents, the film is too...
Weak Spot is set during a seven-year period in Greece that began with its right-wing military junta putting a group of power-hungry colonels in charge of the country. And while it’s focused on the sense of fear, disorientation, and mistrust that accompanied this period of scaremongering and rampant torture of innocents, the film is too...
- 1/12/2025
- by Derek Smith
- Slant Magazine
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