The read
It runs a compact 1h 29m.
Synopsis
In a poor neighborhood of Athens, next to the coffee shop of Spyros (Mimis Fotopoulos) is a coffee shop that has gained a great reputation and is preparing to move to Kolonaki as it has made a lot of money by telling the cup. In the same neighborhood is a laundress, Kalliopi (Georgia Vassiliadou), who makes a living by force. One day, after an incident in which a customer (Kostas Mentis) humiliates Kalliopi and Spyros intervenes, he comes up with an idea: for Kalliopi to run the coffee shop, since the other one has left.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
18 audience votes
Key crew
- Alekos SakellariosScreenplay
- Alekos SakellariosDirector
- Giorgos AsimakopoulosWriter
Cast
- Georgia VasileiadouKalliopi
- Mimis FotopoulosSpyros Tsardis
- Vasilis AvlonitisNikitas
- Smaroula GiouliKaiti Giavasi
- Eleni ZafeiriouAnna Giavasi (as Nitsa Zafeiriou)
- Periklis HristoforidisAndreas Giavasis
- Yorgos Damasiotisdrunk man
- Betty Moshonacustomer
- Nikos Fermasstreet seller
- Beata Asimakopoulourich lady
- Kostas Mendiscustomer
- Kostas Papahristospolice commander
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Themes
fortune tellercoffee shopcafeterialaundry