''O filos mou o Lefterakis'' (Greek: , Alternate translations: ''My Friend, Lefterakis'' or ''Lefterakis, My Friend'') is a 1963

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comedy film starring Dinos Iliopoulos,

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and

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Plot

Thodoros ( Dinos Iliopoulos) is an affluent civil engineer married to Fofo (

). He has come up with an imaginary friend, Lefterakis, and often claims that this friend of his visits

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, so that he can have a night out with his mistress. One evening, while in the middle of a card game with his friend Thanassis (

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), Thodoros starts explaining the plan he came up with to him. The two of them are interrupted by the maid, who announces that Lefterakis has just arrived from

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. Fofo, unaware of her husband's shock and of Thanassis' confusion, invites Lefterakis (

) to spend a couple of days at their place. Over the next couple of days, Thodoros is becoming more and more paranoid; at first he suspects that someone is playing a prank on him; then, he thinks that he's being blackmailed; at last, since the fake Lefterakis seems to know a lot of details about Thodoros' life, the latter starts to think that he's losing his mind. In the end, it is revealed that Fofo was aware of Thodoros' infidelity and of the whole "Lefterakis" plan. It is also revealed that Fofo had planned the sudden visit by the fake Lefterakis, by asking a friend to impersonate the imaginary friend, so as to teach her husband a lesson. Finally, the couple decides to put their differences aside when Fofo announces she's pregnant.

Cast

* Dinos Iliopoulos ..... ''Thodorakis / Theodoros Vlassis'' *

..... ''Lefterakis / Eleftherios Tsambardis / Babis Davos'' *

..... ''Fofo Vlassi'' *

..... Thanassis Kadris *Kaiti Panou ..... Eleni Kadri * Christos Tsaganeas ..... Dr. Karatzamoulis *

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..... Madman *

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..... Katina *Margarita Athanasiou ..... Rena

Box office

The movie sold 61,734 tickets.

Music

Songs: Mary-Linda, Manolis Hiotis and the Broyer sisters (Errika and Margarita)

External links

* 1963 films 1963 comedy films Greek comedy films 1960s Greek-language films Greek-language comedy films {{1960s-comedy-film-stub