Dangerous Game

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Costas, a clerk and a loner, goes to Mytilini on vacation armed with a Super-8 camera and his books. There he meets Anna, the wife of business tycoon Petros Parisis, and falls in love with her. He spends the next few days on the island with her.When her husband returns from Athens, however, their encounters become less frequent. One morning Anna is found drowned. Costas is brought in to the police station but is released since the police believe the death was accidental. Back in Athens, he is tormented by the image of Anna. She is present in the films he shot with his camera. He finds out that Parisis has financial problems, gets a gun and goes back to the island to begin his own investigation and prove that Parisis is in fact Anna’s murderer.

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Script: Yorgos Karypidis, Vangelis Goufas
Cinematography: Thodoros Margas
Editing: Yannis Tsitsopoulos
Sound: Marinos Athanassopoulos
Music: Haris Vrondos
Actors: Zoi Laskari (Anna Parisi), Aris Retsos (Costas Mavros), Spyros Fokas (Petros Parisis), Stefanos Stratigos (police officer), Marika Nezer (aunt), Yorgos Sambanis, Dina Consta, Yorgos Stavrakakis, Mano
Production: Yorgos Karypidis, Greek Film Center
Producers: Nikos Yannopoulos
Sets: Nikos Politis, Yorgos Karypidis
Make Up: Yorgos Stavrakakis
Format: 35mm Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 1982
Duration: 110΄

Yorgos Karypidis

He was born in Thessaloniki in 1946 and studied Painting at the School of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. He made documentaries for the SFB TV station in Berlin. He has directed over 100 documentaries for Greek television, while he has published articles and narratives in magazines and newspapers.The short film Theofilos the Painter won the First Prize at the Thessaloniki FF in 1979. He served as the Chairman of the Board of the Greek Directors’ Guild during 1988-90.

Filmography

1967 Limit (μμ)
1975 Last Stop: Kreuzberg (short doc.)
1979 The Painter Theofilos
1982 Dangerous Game
1986 Witches (TV)
1988 Στη In the Shadow of Fear
1992 The Tail of the Snake (TV)
1992 Dead Liqueur
1995 Bewitched
2004 Utopia