The Loser Takes All

Nov 15, 2002

2h 0m

★ 6.2

Overview

Man (Gianis Aggelakas), a mysterious man of the underworld, small time grifter and big time hard-man, who has an anarchic tendency to mumble and comment 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 kid, who is 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 five of them 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.

Genres

Drama

Action

Adventure

Production Companies

Greek Film Centre

EPT

The Loser Takes All Trailers

Cast

Man

Yiannis Angelakas

Odetti

Jenny Kitseli

Elsa

Ifigenia Asteriadi

Little Boy

Simeon Nikolaidis

Melissa

Ioanna Pappa

TV woman

Maro Mavri

Blonde

Savva Loumi

Agni

Melissa Stoili

detective

Grigoris Pimenidis

El Dorado boss

Takis Tsagaris

short man

Dimitris Katsimanis

pawnbroker

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