Your future father-in-law's secret affair? Awkward. Accidentally punching him? Priceless.
A few hours after the arrival of Aristeidis (Dinos Iliopoulos), Mary's (Kakia Analyti) soon to be fiance, her father Andreas (Vasilis Diamantopoulos), an upstanding citizen, lies about having a meeting with the Bishop and instead goes to meet his neighbor Betty (Anna Kyriakou). Aristeidis, on his way to Mary's house as a series of misfortunes and ends up in a fight with Andreas (whom he does not know) while he is with Betty at a studio apartment.
Acting
Iliopoulos's physical comedy is pure Greek cinema gold.
Writing
Perfect farce architecture—every lie collapses beautifully.
Director
Marios Nousias
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This epitomizes Greek 'fustanella' comedy—bourgeois respectability dismantled by working-class wit, a post-war genre staple.
Dinos Iliopoulos was Greece's most bankable comedy star; this was one of six films he released in 1959 alone.
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