BALLAD FOR A PIERCED HEART

By Yannis Economides

COMEDY, CRIME, DRAMA • GREECE, FRANCE, GERMANY, CYPRUS • 2020 • 140 min • Greek

In a small town in Greece, when amorous passion meets greed for money, dead bodies start piling up and “Sleeping Beauty” Olga will never know the horrors she has been spared of.

| 16TH ZURICH FF | 61ST THESSALONIKI IFF DIRECTION: Yannis Economides

SCREENPLAY: Yannis Economides, Harry Langousis, Dimosthenis Papamarkos CAST: Yannis Tsortekis, Vicky Papadopoulou, Vassilis Bisbikis, Stathis Stamoulakatos

PRODUCER: Panos Papahadzis, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Elie Meirovitz, Ingmar Trost PRODUCTION: Argonauts Productions SA, Faliro House (Greece), EZ Films (France), Sutor Kolonko (Germany), Y.E. Films Ltd (Cyprus) COPRODUCTION: ERT (Greece), EKOME (Greece), Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture, Onassis Foundation (Greece), Yafka (Greece), FILM UND MEDIENSTIFTUNG NRW, CNC, Region of Central Greece COFINANCED BY: Greek Film Centre

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