Comedy · Greece · 1956 · 1h 29m

The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)

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Director

Cast

Georgia Vasileiadou as Kalliopi Mimis Fotopoulos as Spyros Tsardis Vasilis Avlonitis as Nikitas Smaroula Giouli as Kaiti Giavasi Eleni Zafeiriou as Anna Giavasi (as Nitsa Zafeiriou) Periklis Hristoforidis as Andreas Giavasis

Crew

Dinos Katsouridis — Editor Alekos Sakellarios — Screenplay Giorgos Asimakopoulos — Writer Filopoimin Finos — Producer

Synopsis

In a poor neighborhood of Athens, next to the coffee shop of Spyros (Mimis Fotopoulos) is a coffee shop that has gained a great reputation and is preparing to move to Kolonaki as it has made a lot of money by telling the cup. In the same neighborhood is a laundress, Kalliopi (Georgia Vassiliadou), who makes a living by force. One day, after an incident in which a customer (Kostas Mentis) humiliates Kalliopi and Spyros intervenes, he comes up with an idea: for Kalliopi to run the coffee shop, since the other one has left.

Mood & Themes