Loser Takes All

The story of a group of misfits living on the fringes of society.A rebel in his forties, with his luggage full of memories from the “years of cholera,” an alcoholic, a stripper from Senegal, another one buried behind the bar of the “Decadence” and a young one hiding behind his guitar.All of them share a common dream, a journey of no return from “Here no more!” to an island off the coast of Peru.Armed only with their unorthodox behavior, their sense of humor and two stolen handguns, they will plunge into a nighttime world of stool pigeons and parastate media and proceed to prove, in the most marvelous way, that which common sense abhors, i.e. that, in the end, Loser Takes All.
Screening Schedule

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Script: Nikos Nikolaidis
Cinematography: Costis Gikas
Editing: Yorgos Triantafyllou
Sound: Antonis Samaras. Sound Mix: Costas Varimbopiotis
Music: Yannis Angelakas. Songs: Simon Bloom
Actors: Yannis Angelakas (man), Simon Bloom (young boy), Ifigenia Asteriadi (Elsa), Jenny Kitseli (Odetti), Louise Attah (/Mantali), Lumi Savva (blonde), Ioanna Pappa (Melissa)
Production: Marni Film, Greek Film Center, ERT SA Hellenic Broadcasting Corp.
Producers: Nikos Nikolaidis, Marie-Louise Bartholomew
Costumes: Marie-Louise Bartholomew
Sets: Marie-Louise Bartholomew
Make Up: Katerina Economidou
Format: 35mm, Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2002
Duration: 120

Nikos Nikolaidis

Nikos Nikolaidis was born in Athens in 1939. He studied filmmaking and theater set designing. In 1960 he started to work as a first assistant to Vassilis Georgiadis and in 1962 he shot his first short film, Lacrimae Rerum. He made his official debut in 1975 with Euridice BA 2037 at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. He has worked in a recording company and has shot more than 200 commercials in over 20 years. He has published a collection of short stories and three novels, and has written, directed and produced all of his films. He is the only Greek director who has won five times the award for Best Director at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. He died in Athens in September 2007.

Filmography

1962 Lacrimae Rerum (short)
1968 Unconditionally (45’)
1975 Euridice BA 2037
1979 The Wretches Are Still Singing
1983 Sweet Bunch
1987 Morning Patrol
1990 Singapore Sling
1993 The Girl with the Suitcases (TV)
1999 See You in Hell, My Darling
2002 Loser Takes All
2005 The Zero Years

Bibliography
1964 The Gravediggers (short stories)
1977 The Angry Balkan (novel)
1980 The Wretches Are Still Singing (screenplay)
1984 Sweet Bunch (screenplay)
1993 Pigs in the Wind (novel)
2007 A Hit in the Eye of Montezouma

Theater
1996 The Seven Boxes of Pandora by Vassilis Ziogas