The Enemy Within

The Enemy Within (2013)

Revenge is a recurrent theme in thrillers, usually dispensed by action heroes with a well-stocked arsenal. But in Yorgos Tsemberopoulos’s nuanced moral maze the protagonist is the bookish Kostas (Manolis Mavromatakis), a suburban florist well versed in social and political theory, which he discusses at length with a local publican. But when his home is invaded by masked hoodlums, who bind his family and rape his teenage daughter, our everyman hero finds his intellectual stance untenable. Encouraged by his paranoid, militarist neighbour, Kostas decides to take the law into his own hands, and in doing so begins to understand – for the first time – the world he has been living in. The vigilante movie is a well-explored genre too, but Tsemberopoulos gives it a whole new urgency, subverting the cliched right-wing fantasy structure and seeing it through the eyes of a man who comes to find his real self while trying to live up to the (imagined) expectations of others. (Source: LFF programme)

star 5.8
  • Release Date: 2013-11-13
  • Runtime: 1h 47min
  • Director: Giorgos Tsemperopoulos

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    Cast

    • Manolis Mavromatakis

      Kostas Stasinos / Father

    • Maria Zorba

      Rania Stasinou / Mother

    • Yiorgos Gallos

      Sotiris Logaras / Neighbor

    • Antonis Karistinos

      Achilleas / friend

    • Thanasis Papageorgiou

      Father in Law

    • Ariadni Kavalierou

      Louiza Stasinou / Daughter

    • Ilias Moulas

      Andreas Stasinos / Son

    • Vesela Kazakova

      Romanian Woman

    • Tudor Chirilă

      Romanian Man

    • Kostas Antalopoulos

      Police Officer

    • Nikos Dallas

      Police Interrogator (as Nikos Dalas)

    • Thanos Grammenos

      Uncle-Village

    • Anna Kalaitzidou

      Doctor

    • Frixos Manasakis

      Gang member

    • Konstantinos Moraitis

      Rapist (as Konstadinos Moraitis)

    • Yiannis Niarros

      Aris / Friend (as Giannis Niaros)

    • Kostis Savvidakis

      Neighbour