Revenge is a recurrent theme in thrillers, usually dispensed by action heroes with a well-stocked arsenal. But in Yorgos Tsemberopoulos’s nuanced moral maze the protagonist is the bookish Kostas (Manolis Mavromatakis), a suburban florist well versed in social and political theory, which he discusses at length with a local publican. But when his home is invaded by masked hoodlums, who bind his family and rape his teenage daughter, our everyman hero finds his intellectual stance untenable. Encouraged by his paranoid, militarist neighbour, Kostas decides to take the law into his own hands, and in doing so begins to understand – for the first time – the world he has been living in. The vigilante movie is a well-explored genre too, but Tsemberopoulos gives it a whole new urgency, subverting the cliched right-wing fantasy structure and seeing it through the eyes of a man who comes to find his real self while trying to live up to the (imagined) expectations of others. (Source: LFF programme)
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Manolis Mavromatakis as Kostas Stasinos / Father
Maria Zorba as Rania Stasinou / Mother
Yiorgos Gallos as Sotiris Logaras / Neighbor
Antonis Karistinos as Achilleas / friend
Thanasis Papageorgiou as Father in Law
Ariadni Kavalierou as Louiza Stasinou / Daughter
Ilias Moulas as Andreas Stasinos / Son
Vesela Kazakova as Romanian Woman
Tudor Chirilă as Romanian Man
Kostas Antalopoulos as Police Officer
Nikos Dallas as Police Interrogator (as Nikos Dalas)
Thanos Grammenos as Uncle-Village
Anna Kalaitzidou as Doctor
Frixos Manasakis as Gang member
Konstantinos Moraitis as Rapist (as Konstadinos Moraitis)
Yiannis Niarros as Aris / Friend (as Giannis Niaros)
Kostis Savvidakis as Neighbour
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