The Red Lights
1963 · Movie · 132 min. · Greece
Just a little time before the infamous brothels of Troumba (a slum of Peiraieus) are closed down, the story follows the lives of 5 prostitutes. Anna, in love with a gentle and wise sea captain, tries to hide the existence of her son. Marina is bullied by her good-for-nothing pimp, whom she loves to insanity. Mary falls in love with a teenage boy she deflowers. Myrsini, the youngest, deliberately becomes a prostitute and the madame's pet. But the story focuses most on Eleni, a sensitive refugee from Romania, who tries to hide her "dirty" profession from her beloved and to confront the sick passion of her pimp for her.
Direction Vasilis Georgiadis
Cast Jenny Karezi · Mairi Hronopoulou · Dimitris Papamichael · Giorgos Foundas · Manos Katrakis · Alexandra Ladikou · Despo Diamantidou · Katerina Helmy · Faidon Georgitsis · Eleni Anousaki · Notis Peryalis · Kostas Kourtis · Iro Kyriakaki · Thodoros Kefalopoulos
Soundtrack Stavros Xarhakos
Screenplay Alekos Galanos
Cinematography Nikos Gardelis
Original title Ta kokkina fanaria
7.9
49 votes (FilmAffinity)
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