The Coffee Reader (1956)

7.9/10 • 89 min • Comedy

Overview

In a poor neighborhood of Athens, next to the coffee shop of Spyros (Mimis Fotopoulos) is a coffee shop that has gained a great reputation and is preparing to move to Kolonaki as it has made a lot of money by telling the cup. In the same neighborhood is a laundress, Kalliopi (Georgia Vassiliadou), who makes a living by force. One day, after an incident in which a customer (Kostas Mentis) humiliates Kalliopi and Spyros intervenes, he comes up with an idea: for Kalliopi to run the coffee shop, since the other one has left.

Cast

Georgia Vasileiadou

Kalliopi

Mimis Fotopoulos

Spyros Tsardis

Vasilis Avlonitis

Nikitas

Smaroula Giouli

Kaiti Giavasi

Eleni Zafeiriou

Anna Giavasi (as Nitsa Zafeiriou)

Periklis Hristoforidis

Andreas Giavasis

Yorgos Damasiotis

drunk man

Betty Moshona

customer

Nikos Fermas

street seller

Beata Asimakopoulou

rich lady

Kostas Mendis

customer

Kostas Papahristos

police commander

Rallis Angelidis

Niki Linardou

Marikaki

Giorgos Velentzas

Souli Sabah

singer

Hrysoula Zoka

Dancer

Manolis Kastrinos

Dancer

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