The Island

Dec 29, 2009

1h 36m

★ 6.2

Overview

The death of a prominent citizen reveals the corruption that festers behind closed doors on a seemingly beautiful serene Greek island of Sifnos.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Village Productions

Nova

Black Orange

The Island Trailers

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Cast

Olympia

Eleni Kastani

Angela

Elisavet Konstantinidou

Babis

Vladimiros Kiriakidis

Loula

Tania Trypi

Agis

Dimitris Tzoumakis

Priest Labros

Michalis Marinos

Apostolis

Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos

Afroditi

Zeta Douka

Eva

Dafni Labroyanni

Thomas

Pavlos Orkopoulos

Eirini

Doretta Papadimitriou

grandpa Apostolis

Kostas Voutsas

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