Film

The Murderess

1974 · 1h 30m · Drama

IMDb

7.3

An adaptation of one of the greatest greek novellas ('The Murderess' by Alexandros Papadiamantis). Fragkogiannou (Maria Alkaiou), a hard-done by, deranged woman after a life full of hardship, recalls the past by her newborn girl grandchild’s crib. Her mother was a wicked woman and one of her sons was a criminal. Lost in a haze, she strangles the baby as she is concvinced that girls can cause their family only trouble. Later, she lets a little girl drown in a well, while she drowns three other little girls, one of whom is a newborn baby. This is her way of sparing children and parents of the inevitable suffering in life.

Maria Alkaiou

Frankogiannou

Natalia Alkaiou

Kostas Darlasis

Elpidoforos Gotsis

Eleni Ioannou

Giannis Kafaloukos

Anthi Kariofylli

Katerina Karousou

Manos Katrakis

Narrator (voice)

Giorgos Katsaras

Mihalis Kostopoulos

Dora Lytinaki

Christos Natsios

Dimitris Poulikakos

Foivos Taxiarhis

• Costas FerrisDirector · Screenplay
• Dimos TheosScreenplay
• Alexandros PapadiamantisNovel
• Milli Gregou-DelipetrouProducer
• Stavros HassapisDirector of Photography
• Yanna SpyropoulouEditor

Release date

June 13, 1974

Status

Released

Original language

Greek

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Drama