A million drachmas, a dead boss, and a conscience having an absolute meltdown.
The honest and meticulous cashier, Savvas, works in a business and is often pressured by his wife’s siblings to embezzle money from his job and lend it to them. When his manager, leaving on a trip, entrusts him with a million drachmas without a receipt, Savvas succumbs to the pressure and gives some of the money to his brother-in-law. In the end, however, an unexpected development awaits Savvas, since his manager is killed in an airplane crash and he has to decide what to do with the money.
Acting
Mimis Fotopoulos sweating through every moral compromise.
Writing
The delicious irony of the airplane crash twist.
Director
Orestis Laskos
Mimis Fotopoulos
Σάββας
Beata Asimakopoulou
Άννα
Marika Krevata
Ματίνα (Πεθερά)
Vasilis Avlonitis
Μπάμπης
Giannis Gionakis
Κοκός
Eleni Anousaki
Νέλλη
Giorgos Kappis
Αριστείδης Φυσέκης
Stavros Paravas
Στράτος
Katerina Yioulaki
Λουλού
Bety Moshona
Κυρία Λουκίδου
Periklis Hristoforidis
Καρυπίδης
Giorgos Velentzas
Βαγγέλης
Nasos Kedrakas
Χαρίλαος
Vassilis Mavromatis
Δημήτρης
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1964 hit captures post-war Greek cinema's obsession with the 'little man' crushed by systems of family obligation and economic precarity.
Mimis Fotopoulos was Greece's most beloved comic actor; this role let him play anxiety as high art.
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