The Counterfeit Coin

Dec 28, 1955

1h 58m

★ 7.6

Overview

Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made by the honest engraver in the first story, seduced by the charms of a young widow, and it subsequently passes into the hands of a beggar and a prostitute, a wealthy miser and a newly married couple where the husband is a poor artist.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

Anzervos

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Cast

Anargyros Loumbardopoulos

Vasilis Logothetidis

Fifi

Ilia Livykou

Beggar

Mimis Fotopoulos

Maria

Sperantza Vrana

Vasilis Mavridis

Orestis Makris

Aliki

Ellie Lambeti

Pavlos

Dimitris Horn

Narrator

Dimitris Myrat

Dinos

Vagelis Protopapas

Fanitsa

Maria Kalamiotou

Mrs. Mavridou

Lela Patrikiou

Dimitris

Zoras Tsapelis

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