In Exchange for Five Apartments and One Shop! (2004)

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• 2004
• Documentary
• Giannis Skopeteas
• Nikos Kalogeropoulos
• Xenia Kalogeropoulou
• Nikos Xanthopoulos

"Gia pente diamerismata kai ena magazi" is a documentary about how the process of "exchange" transformed the neighborhoods of major cities of Greece, particularly Athens and Pireus. "Exchange" is the process of a landowner making his land available to a building contractor so that an appartment building (with one or more shops on the ground floor) can be built. At the completion of the construction the landowner will receive a number of appartments and a shop for his own use while the contractor gets the rest of the appartments and shops, hence the title "In Exchange for Five Apartments and One Shop".This process, still very popular today, transformed the scenery of Athens in a radical manner converting neighborhoods of rooftop houses into ones of several-stories high buildings.The filmaker went through the filming locations of the exterior scenes of more than 400 greek movies filmed in the 1950's through 1970's and presents some of these scenes in contrast to the way these locations look today.