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The Overcoat
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The Overcoat

Dec 31, 1997
1h 21m
★ 7.0

Overview

Based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol, this blackly comic fairytale is about a lonely social outcast who, in an effort to raise his status at work, spends all his money on a new overcoat, which seemingly gives him the approval he craves. But when it's stolen from him, he cannot return to his previous life of anonymity, leading to a downward spiral from which there is no return.

Genres

Drama
TV Movie

Production Companies

Astra Show Vision and Sound

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Cast

Dinos Iliopoulos

Dinos Iliopoulos

Vasilis Diamantopoulos

Vasilis Diamantopoulos

Kostas Gousgounis

Kostas Gousgounis

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Despina Kourti

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Vangelis Ploios

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Blaine Reininger

Panos Thanassoulis

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