"Cain's House"

Following on the recent "documentary series" of the blog, you might be interested in a Greek documentary film on the issue of Murder. Hristos Karakepelis directed the film during the late 90s and it got finally out in 2000. It presents mainly the murderers' views on the causes and motivations as well as their description of the very moment of committing the crime. Additionally, and maybe more interestingly, they present (or at least try to) their feelings afterwards. They all seem to regret but some of them insist that they would do it again under the same circumstances...like the "in-escepability" of the Greek tragedy.

As the title already implies, the movie presents not only Cain but his house as well, namely the prison. In this framework, the director conducts a very interesting interview with the head guard of the prison. He simply reveals and admits what numerous criminologists working on prison environment were trying to find out.

It is not one of the common TV-documentaries but an actual movie with a rather minimalistic approach. The director chose to provide the interviews unmediated; in the way that hard facts are presented in a research. He gives, though, his personal touch in between the interviews with pictures from 'Korydallos' (the main prison serving the area of Athens) covering the induction process of detainees, their everyday life, the personnel's daily routine as well as the rank-and-file process.

The film is subtitled in English (the trailer is dubbed) and I have a legal copy of it. If interested, we can organize a presentation. In order to be by the (copyright law) book, I'm afraid that I cannot just give you the copy I have!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slnj9Bg2yVQ