Film

The Enigma

1998 · 1h 33m · Drama

IMDb

6.5

A successful young Athenian lawyer, Theodora, who is the daughter of a general, takes on the case of Mantzavinos who is a grocer in Kolonos. Trying to avoid the usual hum-drum approach, she becomes involved with a strange gang with a blind beggar for a leader, Linos, a former teacher, and current idol, of hers, who seems to Theodora like a modern Oedipus. Linos' companion and right-hand man is the former caretaker of the school. The group is completed by two sister-hookers, Anta and Mina, who work in a brothel housed in the school building and who sometimes force Linos to beg for money. The gang is planning a "big score", the theft of the antiquities of Plato's Academy, but Theodora's reluctance, combined with the timely intervention of the police, cancel the plan.

Thanasis Veggos

Linos

Giorgos Velentzas

Efi Venianaki

Theodora

Alexis Damianos

General

Ilias Logothetis

Mantzavinos

Niki Kokona

Anda

Eva Vlahakou

Mina

• Yannis SoldatosWriter · Director

Release date

November 16, 1998

Status

Released

Original language

Greek

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Drama