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news to the prince and his friends that he just inherited a massive fortune in Canada but the three rebels believe he is a bill collector and send him away. Because they received a down payment from
Zinovios, Giorgios, and Nikolas finally fulfill their dream to take a ride in a taxi. The film takes viewers for a ride in Athens during the 1930s. The big party for Vera finally occurs and the Prince of Athonos arrives dressed in a very expensive suit and plays the role of a real prince to impress the wealthy socialites. Giorgios and Nikolas find expensive suits and crash the party and the prince introduces them as his friends. Titika was also at the party she was hired as the florist for the big celebration. She recognized the prince and they had a brief encounter. Zinovios tells the wealthy millionaire Athanasios that the prince is a fraud and has him escorted from the mansion compound. The family sends their butler to apologize to the prince and welcome him back to the mansion but he refused because he loved Titika. The messenger finally was able to tell the prince about his massive inheritance from Canada. Titika and the prince live happily ever after.
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The prince walks past Titika an event he does every day. She is a beautiful florist but she is also poor. The prince encounters a group of orphan children but is very rude to them and the prince meets up with his friends
Giorgios and Nikolas at the local restaurant. The next scene opens with the three friends gambling on the street but they encounter a large group of orphans and a rock war ensues. The prince is injured and Titika nurses him back to health. She clearly has a crush on the prince. The film documents the poor orphans of the city and the life of the impoverished community. The film introduces a wealthy millionaire named Athanasios Paralis and his lavish estate which was
281:. His daughter Vera Paralis inherited a massive fortune from her mother who recently died. Athanasios' secretary is Zinovion Kiriakon. Zinovion has a crush on Vera and wants to marry her. Vera is riding her horse but loses control and falls off. The prince finds her on the side of the road and helps her recover. Vera falls in love with the prince. Meanwhile, Zinovios tells Athanasios he wants to marry his daughter but the wealthy millionaire did not approve the request instead he insulted Zinovios.
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Greece. The supervisor was Maria
Komninou. The film was processed at the L'Immagine Ritrovata workshops in Bologna and Paris. The film premiered on 15 February 2020 right before the outbreak of the covid pandemic at the Stavros Niarchos Hall featuring free admission. The film was set to be screened in countless film festivals worldwide but never did because of the covid shutdown.
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The film offers a rich history. The
Gaziadis family collaborated on the film. George Christoforidis the actor that played the wealthy elite Athanasios Paralis was a prominent actor during the Ottoman Empire and migrated to Greece. His real daughter Stella Christoforidou actually played his daughter
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The film premiered in Athens on 28 April 1930 at the
Attikon theater. It was very successful in Greece and was shown in several European countries namely England, France, Sweden and Norway. The film was also shown in parts of Egypt and Turkey. The film received mixed reviews from the media mostly
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Zinovios hires the prince to pretend to be a real prince to insult Vera and
Athanasios to make Zinovios look like a hero. On her birthday he will be introduced as the Prince of Athonos. A short while after the prince, Giorgios, and Nikolas receive a deposit for the scam a messenger wants to bring
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The film opens at the apartment of Petros
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was produced by the DAG film company and is based on the 1921 operetta of the same name by Nikos
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and it featured French intertitles instead of dialog. The film was digitized to 4K and 35mm copies, and the music was reconstructed. The cost was close to 121,000 euros and featured the collaboration of Kostas Gavras, the Greek Film
Archive, the French Film Archive and of the National Opera of
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gangster of Athens. The story is a romantic adventure about an
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