My Friend Lefterakis
| O filos mou o Lefterakis Ο φίλος μου ο Λευτεράκης | |
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| Written by | Alekos Sakellarios |
| Starring |
Dinos Iliopoulos Kostas Voutsas Maro Kontou Giorgos Konstadinou Hristos Tsaganeas Kaiti Panou Katerina Gioulaki Nikitas Platis Margarita Athanasiou Jenny Kyriakou |
| Music by | Gerasimos Lavranos |
| Distributed by | Fimos Films |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Greece |
| Language | Greek |
O filos mou o Lefterakis (Greek: Greek: Ο φίλος μου ο Λευτεράκης, Alternate translations: My Friend, Lefterakis or Lefterakis, My Friend) is a 1964 Greek theatrical comedy film starring Dinos Iliopoulos, Kostas Voutsas and Maro Kontou.
Plot
Thodoros (Dinos Iliopoulos) and Fofo (Maro Kontou) are a married middle-class couple, stuck in a rut. Thodoros has "invented" an out-of-town friend, Lefterakis, who is conveniently in Athens every time Thodoros wants to have a night out with his mistress.
One evening, while in the middle of a card game with his friend Thanassis (Giorgos Konstantinou), he starts explaining his scam to him; they are interrupted however by the maid, who announces that Lefterakis has just arrived from Patras. Fofo, apparently oblivious to her husband's horror and Thanassis' confusion, invites Lefterakis (Kostas Voutsas) to spend a couple of days at their place.
Over the next couple of days, Thodoros is becoming more and more paranoid, as he first suspects that someone is playing a prank on him, then that he's being blackmailed and, as the fake Lefterakis seems to know a lot of details about him, that he's indeed losing his mind.
In the end, it is revealed that Fofo has known about Thodoros' infidelities, and the invention of "Lefterakis" for a while. Fofo has planned the whole thing to teach him a lesson, asking a friend to impersonate "Lefterakis". The couple finally decides to put their differences aside when Fofo announces she's pregnant.
Cast
- Dinos Iliopoulos ..... Thodorakis / Theodoros Vlassis
- Kostas Voutsas ..... Lefterakis / Eleftherios Tsambardis / Babis Davos
- Maro Kontou ..... Fofo Vlassi
- Giorgos Konstantinou ..... Thanasis Kadris
- Kaiti Panou ..... Eleni Kadri
- Christos Tsaganeas ..... dr. Karatzamoulis
- Nikitas Platis ..... madman
- Katerina Yioulaki ..... Katina
- Margarita Athanasiou ..... Rena
Box office
The movie sold 61,734 tickets.
Music
Songs: Mary-Linda, Manolis Hiotis and the Broyer sisters (Errika and Margarita)