Tetarti 04:45

"One man, one city, 32 hours."

Mar 12 2015 N/A 1h 56m
Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stelios Dimitrakopoulos has 32 hours left before he loses everything. From the jazz bar he painstakingly keeps running for years, to his own family. The Romanian gangster who lent him money, now demands the debt to be paid. The middle-man and former friend, makes Stelios take care of illegal errands. His wife is seriously thinking of abandoning him, and a night club owner, not thinking about the consequences, finally starts to stand up for himself. Christmas is coming, the clock is ticking, and the tree in Stelios' house must be decorated.

Plot

Stelios is the owner of a Jazz Club in Athens. A few years ago, through the help of his former associate Vassos, Stelios received a business loan from the Romanian in order to renovate his club. In 2010, the recession finds Stelios on the brink of bankruptcy unable to repay the loan. The Romanian meets with Stelios and gives him one day to come up with a solution. In a vortex of adultery, drug abuse, violence, guilt and self-deceit, Stelios has a few hours left to save his club, salvage his crumbling marriage, battle the mafia loan-sharks, baptize his employee's kid and show up at school to receive his son's report card as a responsible parent.

Written by

Alexis Alexiou

Directed by

Alexis Alexiou

Production Countries

Israel, Greece, Germany

Production Companies

Marni Films, Faliro House Productions, ZDF, Pie Films, CL Productions, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion GmbH

Languages

Awards

10 wins & 8 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
1,812
Average Rating
6.8 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA