Greece's M.A.S.H. has a bitter edge to its comedy as it looks back to the infamous Junta and a group of soldiers doing compulsory service during 1967 and 1968. (The title describes two popular methods of avoiding trouble in the army.) Loafing and Camouflage is "95% true-the real story was even more absurd," according to writer-director Nicos Perakis. The soldiers are assigned to the then-newly founded "Armed Forces Television" unit, whose personnel, being drawn from those who had film experience in their civilian lives, often had leftist leanings. Between propaganda assignments they indulge in a variety of shenanigans. A clever script delineates the cat-and-mouse games played between the "brass" and their subordinates. But Perakis notes that, for Greeks whose past is, like his own, "burdened by the army and the years of the Dictatorship," the film may elicit "rage, sadness, even a sense of mourning. I strove for the comic element but only to heighten the tragic aspect..."