O Drakos
| O Drakos The Ogre of Athens |
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| Directed by | Nikos Koundouros |
| Produced by | Athens Film Company |
| Written by | Iakovos Kambanellis |
| Starring |
Dinos Iliopoulos Margarita Papageorgiou Giannis Argyris |
| Music by | Manos Hadjidakis |
| Cinematography | Costas Theodorides |
| Edited by | Giorgos Tsaoulis |
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103 minutes |
| Country | Greece |
| Language | Greek |
O Drakos (Greek: Ο Δράκος; English: The Ogre of Athens or The Dragon or The fiend of Athens) is a Greek black-and-white film, produced in 1956, directed by Nikos Koundouros. It won the award for best movie 1955–1959 in the first Thessaloniki Film Festival. It also took part in the Venice Film Festival.
At the 2006 International Thessaloniki Film Festival, the film was announced as among the 10 all-time best Greek films by the PHUCC (Pan-Hellenic Union of Cinema Critics).
A simple man realizes that he looks like a criminal named "Drakos". The police are after him and he hides in a night club. Day by day, he identifies himself with "Drakos".
The movie is mentioned (and plays an important role) in Jonathan Franzen's novel Freedom, with the title The Fiend of Athens.
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