The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)

Oct 29, 1956

1h 29m

★ 7.9

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Finos Film

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Cast

Kalliopi

Georgia Vasileiadou

Spyros Tsardis

Mimis Fotopoulos

Nikitas

Vasilis Avlonitis

Kaiti Giavasi

Smaroula Giouli

Anna Giavasi (as Nitsa Zafeiriou)

Eleni Zafeiriou

Andreas Giavasis

Periklis Hristoforidis

drunk man

Yorgos Damasiotis

customer

Bety Moshona

street seller

Nikos Fermas

rich lady

Beata Asimakopoulou

customer

Kostas Mendis

police commander

Kostas Papahristos

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