A Greek sports drama where glory comes with a price nobody tells you about upfront.
Acting
Eskenazy's physical transformation sells the athletic illusion.
Direction
Fournistakis shoots Athens like a fever dream of faded glory.
Director
Vangelis Fournistakis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Greece's late-80s sports funding crisis, the film mirrors real scandals in amateur athletics.
Eskenazy was a former competitive swimmer, not a wrestler — the wrestling scenes took six months to fake convincingly.
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