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Arseniko kai palia dantela
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Arseniko kai palia dantela

1981-04-13 · 130 min · Not rated

TV Movie · Comedy

Members of an otherwise typical New York Brooklyn family are "tortured" by a kind of hereditary madness. In the meantime, the adopted nephew Mortimer tries to do everything to protect his two aunts, who indulge in a variety of dangerous acts, such as poisoning lonely and homeless elderly people, and burying them in the basement of their house. When another niece, Jonathan, arrives, the situation will spiral out of control. The play was released on DVD by Radiotileorasi magazine in December 2010 (78th DVD of the "ERT Cultural Film Archive" series).

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Directors
Michalis Papanikolaou
Production companies
ERT
Countries
Greece
Status
Released

Top Cast

Dimitris KoukisDimitris KoukisJonathan Brewster
Giorgos HristodoulouGiorgos HristodoulouMortimer Brewster
Dimitris PiatasDimitris PiatasTeddy Roosevelt Brewster
Kaiti LambropoulouKaiti Lambropoulou
Pitsa Bournozou
Dimitris Liagas
Giannis MalouhosGiannis Malouhos
Giorgos MoshidisGiorgos Moshidis
Louiza PodimataLouiza Podimata
Tasos PolyhronopoulosTasos Polyhronopoulos
Giorgos VrasivanopoulosGiorgos Vrasivanopoulos
Kostas BakalisKostas Bakalis

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