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The Murderess (1974)
Directed by Costas Ferris
Drama · 1h 30m
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.
Cast
Maria Alkaiou
Manos Katrakis
Crew
- Director
- Costas Ferris
- Screenplay
- Dimos Theos, Costas Ferris
- Novel
- Alexandros Papadiamantis
- Director of Photography
- Stavros Hassapis
- Editor
- Yanna Spyropoulou
- Producer
- Milli Gregou-Delipetrou
Details
- Original title
- Η φόνισσα
- Release date
- 1974-06-13
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EL
- Spoken languages
- Greek
- Countries
- Greece