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COUNTERFEIT COIN

Posterior title: STORY OF A COUNTERFEIT COIN (THE)
A counterfeit coin goes from hand to hand telling its story in four independent episodes. The piece has been made by a decent goldsmith, Anargyros (Vasilis Logothetidis), who is captivated by the charming Lady Fifi, (Ilya Livykou). He has, in fact, spent one-hundred gold sovereigns to make the coin in question. However, nobody buys the coin, which appears to be counterfeit. The coin falls into the hands of a beggar (Mimis Fotopoulos) who plays a blind man and who is constantly arguing with a whore (Sperantsa Vrana), who works the street a little further away. It then falls into the hands of a poor orphan, Fanitsa, who is in danger of ending up on the street, but her miserly landlord, Mr. Vasilis (Orestis Makris), agrees to cash in the coin and help out the young girl. Following this, the coin ends up becoming the good-luck coin baked in a traditional holiday Vasilopita cake. The coin is found by a poor painter, Pavlos (Dimitris Horn), who has recently married a rich heiress, Aliki (Elli Lampeti), becoming a symbol of their powerful but short-lived love.
  • Production Year 1955
  • First Greek Screening 24/01/1955
  • Color B/W
  • Audio SOUND
  • Genre FEATURE FILM, ETHOGRAPHY, EPISODIC
  • Director TZAVELLAS GIORGOS
  • Production ANZERVOS
  • Script Writer TZAVELLAS GIORGOS
  • Directors of Cinematography THEODORIDIS KOSTAS, TSAOULIS GIORGOS
  • Editing TSAOULIS GIORGOS
  • Sound Engineer KONTOS TAKIS
  • Set Designer PAPADOPOULOS PANAGIOTIS
  • Narrator MYRAT DIMITRIS
  • Assistant Director ELEFTHERIOU NAPOLEON
  • Cinematography Assistant Director DANALIS GRIGORIS
  • Production Manager TZAVELLAS GIORGOS
  • Assistant Production Manager - Provisor KALOGEROPOULOS EMMANOUIL
  • Makeup artist VARVERIS NIKOS
  • Sound Engineer NIAGASAS GIORGOS
  • Set Photographer SKLAVIS GIORGOS
  •  LOGOTHETIDIS VASILIS
  •  LIVYKOU ILYA
  •  FOTOPOULOS MIMIS
  •  VRANA SPERANTZA
  •  MAKRIS ORESTIS
  •  KALAMIOTOU MARIA
  •  LAMPETI ELLI
  •  HORN DIMITRIS
  •  MOUSTAKA ATHANASIA
  •  IOANNIDOU LOULA
  •  PATRIKOU LELA
  •  ROUSSOU ANNA
  •  PANAGIOTIDOU DESPOINA
  •  VLACHOU PERSA
  •  MPASOURI TAYGETI
  •  NINETTA
  •  DIANELLOS LAVRENTIS
  •  PROTOPAPPAS EVANGELOS
  •  VLACHOPOULOS GIORGOS
  •  TSAPELIS ZORAS
  •  TZENERALIS THANOS
  •  IOANNIDIS GIANNIS
  •  AFENTAKIS VASILIS
  •  POMONIS KOSTAS
  •  ANGELIDIS RALLIS
  •  FERMAS NIKOS
  •  PAPADAKIS MICHALIS
  •  LEIVADAS GERASIMOS
  •  KARETAS GIORGOS
  •  KATAPODIS PAVLOS
  •  PANAGIOTOPOULOS TAKIS

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