A family dinner where the main course is murder. Greek tragedy served ice cold.
Michalis has a plan and awaits. His father leaves. Now he is alone with a knife, his mother, his sister and his brother.
Acting
Pandazaras simmers with unspoken intent in every frame.
Direction
Fourtounis traps you in suffocating single-location tension.
Cinematography
Cramped frames that make family closeness feel threatening.
Director
Giorgos Fourtounis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Greece's debt crisis, the film weaponizes economic desperation as dramatically as the knife itself—Michalis's €200 goal mirrors real minimum monthly wages collapsed by austerity.
The 37-minute runtime mirrors classical unity of time; Fourtounis essentially stages a one-act tragedy where the chorus is the silence between siblings.
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