The Overcoat
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Based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol, this blackly comic fairytale is about a lonely social outcast who, in an effort to raise his status at work, spends all his money on a new overcoat, which seemingly gives him the approval he craves. But when it's stolen from him, he cannot return to his previous life of anonymity, leading to a downward spiral from which there is no return.
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Cast
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Dinos Iliopoulos
Known for
The Beekeeper
Vasilis Diamantopoulos
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Educate Yourself My Son
Cavafy
Kostas Gousgounis
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O Hristos xanastavronetai
He was worthy
Despina Kourti
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Black Field
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Vangelis Ploios
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The Life I Didn't Live
Metrao Stigmes
Blaine Reininger
Also in
The Sentimentalists
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Panos Thanassoulis
Known for
Singapore Sling
Michele Valley
Known for
Dogtooth
Singapore Sling
Nicholas Triandafyllidis Director · Evgenia Liroudia Writer Nikolai Gogol Story
First release December 31, 1997 · Produced in Greece · Original title Το παλτό
Production
Astra Show Vision and Sound
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Greece
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Languages
Original title
Το παλτό
Original language
Greek
Spoken on screen
Greek
Release dates
Greece · December 31, 1997
TV
No release date listed for United States.
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