Oi tembelides tis eforis koiladas

Oct 1 1978 N/A 1h 58m
Comedy, Drama, Romance

In this black comedy, the men in a lovely mansion slowly give in to a kind of terminal sloth after they are freed from the need to actually work. The father takes to his bed after his hernia acts up and never leaves it. Of his three sons, only one wants to do much about leaving, and he does in fact cross the front threshold of the house with his lover, who is also the maid. However, before he has gotten very far, he is very tired, and goes to sleep where he stands. One of the sons outdoes them all by sleeping literally all the time. He is not in a coma -- he is just very, very lazy and tired. Some critics have viewed this film as a sharply delineated social satire.

Plot

At last, fortune has smiled upon a grizzled paterfamilias, who, after inheriting his older brother's immense property along with a discreet live-in maid, decides to move in his lavish mansion with his three grown-up sons. But there, in the heart of a secluded, enviable estate, overpowering sloth starts to get the best of the new tenants. And more and more--as the weeks turn into months, which turn into years--the four men embrace indolence from an impulse as sudden and profound as the inexplicable urge to defy life and sink into nothingness. Is there an escape from the deadly web of sweet, numbing languor?

Written by

Albert Cossery, Nikos Panayotopoulos

Directed by

Nikos Panayotopoulos

Cast

Olga Karlatos, George Dialegmenos, Dimitris Poulikakos

Crew

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Production Countries

Greece

Production Companies

Alix Film Productions

Languages

Awards

4 wins & 3 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
931
Average Rating
7.2 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA