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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Cast
Manolis Mavromatakis
as Kostas Stasinos / Father
Maria Zorba
as Rania Stasinou / Mother
Yiorgos Gallos
as Sotiris Logaras / Neighbor
Antonis Karistinos
as Achilleas / friend
Thanasis Papageorgiou
as Father in Law
Ariadni Kavalierou
as Louiza Stasinou / Daughter
Ilias Moulas
as Andreas Stasinos / Son
Vesela Kazakova
as Romanian Woman
Tudor Chirilă
as Romanian Man
Kostas Antalopoulos
as Police Officer
Thanos Grammenos
as Uncle-Village
Anna Kalaitzidou
as Doctor
Yiannis Niarros
as Aris / Friend (as Giannis Niaros)
Kostis Savvidakis
as Neighbour
Crew
Giorgos Tsemperopoulos
Director
Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Editor
Akis Daoutis
Music
Evgenia Dimitropoulou
Thanks
Stelios Mainas
Thanks
Maria Skoula
Thanks
Akis Daoutis
Musician
Giorgos Tsemperopoulos
Location Manager
Michalis Samiotis
Pyrotechnician
Dimitra Giatrakou
Makeup Designer
Giorgos Tsemperopoulos
Co-Producer