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The Overcoat (1997)
Directed by Nicholas Triandafyllidis
Overview
Based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol, this blackly comic fairytale is about a lonely social outcast who, in an effort to raise his status at work, spends all his money on a new overcoat, which seemingly gives him the approval he craves. But when it’s stolen from him, he cannot return to his previous life of anonymity, leading to a downward spiral from which there is no return.
Length 81 minutes
Actors
Dinos Iliopoulos | Vasilis Diamantopoulos | Kostas Gousgounis | Despina Kourti | Vangelis Ploios | Blaine Reininger | Panos Thanassoulis | Michele Valley