What if the fake son becomes the real heartbreak? Greek melodrama at its most unhinged.
Giannis (Alekos Alexandrakis) pretends to be the lost son of the Mavroleontos family. The mother (Vaso Metaxa) is happy with the return of her son. Her daughter Liana (Zoe Laskari) is also happy, and Giannis falls in love with her. Liana’s cousin Zanet (Mary Chronopoulou) tries to kill Liana so that she can claim the family fortune, but in the end she injures Giannis.
Acting
Zoe Laskari's star-making vulnerability carries every scene.
Direction
Dalianidis crafts glossy tragedy from soap opera material.
Director
Giannis Dalianidis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Greece's 'golden age' commercial cinema, this launched Zoe Laskari as the nation's biggest star — she made four films with Dalianidis in two years.
The 'fake heir' plot mirrors postwar Greek anxieties about class mobility and fractured families; Giannis's deception only works because the mother desperately wants to believe.
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