The Big Streets (Greek: Megaloi dromoi) is a 1953 Greek drama film directed by Grigoris Grigoriou and starring Dinos Dimopoulos, Liana Liapi and Giannis Argyris. It was neorealist in style. Its failure at the box office led Grigoriou to turn to making more potentially commercial films.[1]

The Big Streets
Directed byGrigoris Grigoriou
Written byDinos Dimopoulos
StarringDinos Dimopoulos
CinematographyThanasis Papadoukas
Music byArghyris Kounadis
Production
company
Afoi Perganti
Release date
  • 1953 (1953)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryGreece
LanguageGreek

Cast edit

  • Dinos Dimopoulos as Nikos Gerasimou
  • Liana Liapi as Margarita
  • Giannis Argyris as Thomas Gerasimou
  • Giorgos Vlahopoulos
  • Veatriki Deligianni
  • Giorgos Dimou
  • Popi Deligianni
  • Stavros Xenidis
  • Kostas Strantzalis
  • Nana Papadopoulou
  • Eirini Koumarianou
  • Nana Viopoulou
  • Takis Mandilas
  • Kostas Kontonis
  • Georgios Mitropoulos
  • Zoi Rouhota
  • Hristos Katzigiannis
  • Lina Dadi
  • L. Simonetos
  • Haroula Antahopoulou
  • Marika Ninou
  • Vasilis Tsitsanis as Singer

References edit

  1. ^ Karalis p.59

Bibliography edit

  • Vrasidas Karalis. A History of Greek Cinema. A&C Black, 2012.

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