The Ogre of Athens
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Initial DVD release June 11, 2002 (Greece) Duration Country Greece | 8.2/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama Music director Manos Hadjidakis Writer Iakovos Kabanellis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 5 March 1956 Cast (Thomas), Margarita Papageorgiou (Roula), Γιάννης Αργύρης (Hondros), (Spathis), Anestis Vlahos , Maria Lekaki (Carmen)Similar movies Thanasis Veggos and Dinos Iliopoulos appear in O Drakos and O atsidas Tagline a parody of a tragedy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
O Drakos (Greek: Ο Δράκος; English: The Ogre of Athens or The Dragon or The fiend of Athens) is a Greek black-and-white film, produced in 1956, directed by Nikos Koundouros. It won the award for best movie 1955–1959 in the first Thessaloniki Film Festival. It also took part in the Venice Film Festival.
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At the 2006 International Thessaloniki Film Festival, the film was announced as among the 10 all-time best Greek films by the PHUCC (Pan-Hellenic Union of Cinema Critics).
Plot
A simple man realizes that he looks like a criminal named "Drakos". The police are after him and he hides in a night club. Day by day, he identifies himself with "Drakos".
Cast
Trivia
The movie is mentioned (and plays an important role) in Jonathan Franzen's novel Freedom, with the title The Fiend of Athens.
