The Enemy Within
Ο Εχθρός μου
Revenge is a recurrent theme in thrillers, usually dispensed by action heroes with a well-stocked arsenal. But in Yorgos Tsemberopoulos’s nuanced moral maze the protagonist is the bookish Kostas (Manolis Mavromatakis), a suburban florist well versed in social and political theory, which he discusses at length with a local publican. But when his home is invaded by masked hoodlums, who bind his family and rape his teenage daughter, our everyman hero finds his intellectual stance untenable. Encouraged by his paranoid, militarist neighbour, Kostas decides to take the law into his own hands, and in doing so begins to understand – for the first time – the world he has been living in. The vigilante movie is a well-explored genre too, but Tsemberopoulos gives it a whole new urgency, subverting the cliched right-wing fantasy structure and seeing it through the eyes of a man who comes to find his real self while trying to live up to the (imagined) expectations of others. (Source: LFF programme)
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Yiorgos Gallos
as Sotiris Logaras / Neighbor
Antonis Karistinos
as Achilleas / friend
Ariadni Kavalierou
as Louiza Stasinou / Daughter
Ilias Moulas
as Andreas Stasinos / Son
Vesela Kazakova
as Romanian Woman
Kostas Antalopoulos
as Police Officer
Yiannis Niarros
as Aris / Friend (as Giannis Niaros)
Maria Zorba
as Rania Stasinou / Mother
Thanasis Papageorgiou
as Father in Law
Thanos Grammenos
as Uncle-Village
Anna Kalaitzidou
as Doctor
Manolis Mavromatakis
as Kostas Stasinos / Father
Tudor Chirilă
as Romanian Man
Kostis Savvidakis
as Neighbour
