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The Murderess

7 average rating
7
Greek / 90 MIN. / 1974

The Genres

The Synopsis

An adaptation of one of the greatest greek novellas ('The Murderess' by Alexandros Papadiamantis). Fragkogiannou (Maria Alkaiou), a hard-done by, deranged woman after a life full of hardship, recalls the past by her newborn girl grandchild’s crib. Her mother was a wicked woman and one of her sons was a criminal. Lost in a haze, she strangles the baby as she is concvinced that girls can cause their family only trouble. Later, she lets a little girl drown in a well, while she drowns three other little girls, one of whom is a newborn baby. This is her way of sparing children and parents of the inevitable suffering in life.

The Cast

Maria AlkaiouNatalia AlkaiouCostas DarlasisElpidoforos GotsisEleni IoannouGiannis KafaloukosAnthi KariofylliKaterina KarousouManos KatrakisGiorgos KatsarasMihalis KostopoulosDora LytinakiChristos NatsiosDimitris PoulikakosFoivos Taxiarhis

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