Small town Greece, big time murder — and one woman sleeping through all of it.
In a small town in Greece, when amorous passion meets with greed money, dead bodies start pilling up and "Sleeping Beauty" Olga will never know the horrors she has been spared of.
Acting
Vasilis Bisbikis oozes desperate sleaze as Manos.
Direction
Economides frames violence like mundane paperwork.
Writing
Dialogue so natural you forget it's scripted.
Director
Yannis Economides
Vasilis Bisbikis
Manos
Vicky Papadopoulou
Olga
Yannis Tsortekis
Iraklis
Stathis Stamoulakatos
Glaros
Vangelis Mourikis
Dinos
Giorgos Giannopoulos
Lambros
Lena Kitsopoulou
Vivi
Vasiliki Kalimani
Fotini
Fokion Bogris
Vangelis
Theodoros Kandiliotis
Jimis
Petros Zervos
Mr. Yorgos
Dimitris Kapetanakos
Kostaras
Dimitris Drosos
Taxi Driver
Yiannis Niarros
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Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Economides continues his obsession with Greece's economic collapse as moral rot, where even love becomes transactional desperation.
The title references a traditional Greek song form repurposed for modern tragedy — the 'ballad' here is elegy for dead dreams.
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