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The Loser Takes All
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The Loser Takes All

2002-11-15 · 120 min · ★ 6.1

Drama · Action · Adventure

A mysterious man, small-time grifter and big time hard-man has an anarchic tendency to riff on the system, society, police, the underworld itself and other things, along with his beloved bird, Bellafonte, meets up with an odd posse consisting of a young songwriter, a prostitute who gathers money in order to open a bookstore, an alcoholic girl haunted by the relationship with her dead mother, and the grudgey bar-woman-ex-girlfriend. The quintet get caught up in a scheme involving the media, the mob, politicians and the police. And they definitely want to get the hell out of the city, probably to some Caribbean paradise.

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Directors
Nikos Nikolaidis
Production companies
Greek Film Centre, ERT
Countries
Greece
Status
Released

Top Cast

Yiannis AngelakasYiannis AngelakasMan
Jenny KitseliJenny KitseliOdetti
Ifigenia AsteriadiIfigenia AsteriadiElsa
Simeon NikolaidisSimeon NikolaidisLittle Boy
Ioanna PappaIoanna PappaMelissa
Maro MavriMaro MavriTV woman
Savva LoumiBlonde
Melissa StoiliAgni
Grigoris PimenidisGrigoris Pimenidisdetective
Takis TsagarisEl Dorado boss
Dimitris KatsimanisDimitris Katsimanisshort man
Notis PitsilosNotis Pitsilospawnbroker
Michele ValleyMichele Valleydead mother
Louise AttahMantali
George HouliarasGeorge Houliarasdealer #1
Themis Katzdealer #2
Stefanos Lazarinosdealer #3
Christos HouliarasCamera man

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