The Enemy Within (2013)
Overview
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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Additional Info
Budget | $0.00 |
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Revenue | $0.00 |
Original Language | el |
Popularity | 1.223 |
Directed By
Giorgos Tsemperopoulos
Crew
Giorgos Tsemperopoulos
Eleni Kossyfidou
Yiannis Tsiros
Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Akis Daoutis
Vangelis Katritzidakis
Maria Laina
Zoi Xanthi
Evgenia Dimitropoulou
Stelios Mainas
Dimitris Panagopoulos
Dimitris Pantelias
Maria Skoula
Nikos Tseberopoulos
Errikos Bari
Maria Kounavi
Giorgos Natsis
Katerina Barbatsalou
Spyros Aravositas
Akis Daoutis
Spiros Iliadis
Charis Papadopoulos
Ilias Paraskevopoulos
Stavros Pazarentzis
Babis Tsilivigos
Vangelis Mittas
Dimitris Pantelias
Giorgos Riggas
Dimitris Skiadopoulos
Giorgos Tsemperopoulos
Nikos Vavouris
dimitris theodoridis
Giannis Rozeas
Constantinos Patramanis
Katerina Paspaliari
Nikos Nikolopoulos
Manos Kritsotakis
Stefanos Kalothetos
Konstadinos Kagioulis
Giorgos Hatzimitros
Lefteris Agapoulakis
Michalis Samiotis
Roulis Alahouzos
George Alahouzos
Giorgos Mikrogiannakis
Nikos Exarhos
Stefanos Efthymiou
Dimitris Liappis
Janis Rafailidou
Chrisanthos Margonis
Dimitris Skiadopoulos
Giorgos Riggas
Sotiris Paterakis
Dimitra Giatrakou
Hristina Hatzaridou
Spyros Laskaris
Katerina Kaskanioti
Giorgos Tsemperopoulos
Che Panoussopoulos
Che Panoussopoulos
Che Panoussopoulos
TOP CAST
Manolis Mavromatakis
Kostas Stasinos / Father
Maria Zorba
Rania Stasinou / Mother
Yiorgos Gallos
Sotiris Logaras / Neighbor
Antonis Karistinos
Achilleas / friend
Thanasis Papageorgiou
Father in Law
Ariadni Kavalierou
Louiza Stasinou / Daughter
Ilias Moulas
Andreas Stasinos / Son
Vesela Kazakova
Romanian Woman
Tudor Chirilă
Romanian Man
Kostas Antalopoulos
Police Officer
Nikos Dallas
Police Interrogator (as Nikos Dalas)
Thanos Grammenos
Uncle-Village
Anna Kalaitzidou
Doctor
Frixos Manasakis
Gang member
Konstantinos Moraitis
Rapist (as Konstadinos Moraitis)
Yiannis Niarros
Aris / Friend (as Giannis Niaros)
Kostis Savvidakis
Neighbour