A poor university student, Ntinos Vristhenis, has abandoned his studies due to financial difficulties and is searching for a job. He is hired as an actor in a troupe, where he meets and falls in love with the leading actress. When she yields to a businessman who promises her a bright future, Nikos, feeling disappointed, leaves the theater. Poverty forces him to join the proletariat and become a tobacco worker in order to make ends meet.
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Cast
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Stelios Tatasopoulos
Dinos Vristhenis
Also in
Το λιμάνι των δακρύων
Gerasimos Arsenis
Ketty Diridaoua
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Dracula and Company
Ririka
Joly Garbi
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O episkeptis tis omihlis
What a Mess
Danai Grizou
Rika Karouzaki
Giorgos Kavoukidis
Tasos Kefalas
Spyros Lavazanos
Kostas Logariastakis
Giorgos Mouftouris
Eleni Lavda
Stelios Tatasopoulos Director
First release June 25, 1932 · Produced in Greece · Original title Κοινωνική σαπίλα
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Greece
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Original title
Κοινωνική σαπίλα
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Greece · June 25, 1932
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No release date listed for United States.
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