My Friend Lefterakis

O filos mou o Lefterakis
Ο φίλος μου ο Λευτεράκης
Directed by Alekos Sakellarios
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
Cinematography Nikos Dimopoulos
Distributed by Fimos Films
Release date
  • 1963 (1963)
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 comedy film starring Dinos Iliopoulos, Kostas Voutsas and Maro Kontou.

Plot

Thodoros (Dinos Iliopoulos) is an affluent civil engineer married to Fofo (Maro Kontou). Thodoros has "invented" an out-of-town friend, Lefterakis, who conveniently happens to be 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. However, they are interrupted 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

Box office

The movie sold 61,734 tickets.

Music

Songs: Mary-Linda, Manolis Hiotis and the Broyer sisters (Errika and Margarita)



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