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The Enigma

Nov 16, 1998 · 1h 33m
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Drama

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A successful young Athenian lawyer, Theodora, who is the daughter of a general, takes on the case of Mantzavinos who is a grocer in Kolonos. Trying to avoid the usual hum-drum approach, she becomes involved with a strange gang with a blind beggar for a leader, Linos, a former teacher, and current idol, of hers, who seems to Theodora like a modern Oedipus. Linos' companion and right-hand man is the former caretaker of the school. The group is completed by two sister-hookers, Anta and Mina, who work in a brothel housed in the school building and who sometimes force Linos to beg for money. The gang is planning a "big score", the theft of the antiquities of Plato's Academy, but Theodora's reluctance, combined with the timely intervention of the police, cancel the plan.

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CAST

Thanasis Veggos
Linos
Giorgos Velentzas
Efi Venianaki
Theodora
Alexis Damianos
General
Ilias Logothetis
Mantzavinos
Niki Kokona
Anda
Eva Vlahakou
Mina
Directed by Yannis Soldatos

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Production
Aigokeros, FASMA EPE, Greek Film Centre, ERT
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GR
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