She lost the winning ticket and accidentally became Greece's most chaotic icon.
The loss of the first lottery ticket by a poor seamstress becomes the reason for her to become famous and ultimately earn a lot of money.
Acting
Rena Vlahopoulou's comedic timing is absolutely unhinged perfection.
Production
Peak 1980s Greek commercial aesthetics, gloriously tacky.
Director
Kostas Karagiannis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rena Vlahopoulou was Greece's reigning comedy queen; this film cemented her working-class heroine persona that dominated 1970s-80s popular cinema.
The lottery-as-plot-device mirrored Greece's actual 1980s gambling obsession; state-run OPAP profits funded public projects while films like this laughed at ordinary people's desperate hope.
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