ΛΥΠΗΘΗΤΕ ΤΟ ΠΑΙΔΙ ΜΟΥ


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  • Other title(s): I’VE SINNED FOR MY CHILD
    SPARE MY CHILD
  • Genre: ΑΠΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΣΗ ΠΑΡΕΛΘΟΝ ΟΡΦΝΑΗ ΚΟΡΗ ΥΠΟΚΟΣΜΟΣ ΕΚΜΕΤΑΛΛΕΥΣΗ ΔΥΣΤΥΧΗΜΑ ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ / PRISON RELEASE PAST ORPHAN DAUGHTER UNDERWORLD EXPLOITATION ACCIDENT DEATH / ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΜΗΚΟΥΣ / ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗ / ΔΡΑΜΑΤΙΚΗ / ΜΕΛΟΔΡΑΜΑ / FEATURE FILM / SOCIAL DRAMA / DRAMATIC / MELODRAMA
  • Year: 1950
  • Description: Pantelis, a building contractor, is informed that the mother of his adopted daughter Julia has been released after many years in prison. He decides to speak to the girl about her mother’s past and character. The story began in Aegina, where his partner Agis and he had undertaken the construction of a pier in the harbor. There they met her mother, orphan Roi, who worked at Jimmy’s taverna. Agis fell passionately in love with her, but, due to other obligations, he had to leave the island and return to the capital, without knowing that Roi was already pregnant. When Jimmy the taverner sent her away, she was forced to go to Athens, where she gave birth to her child. Then she became involved with a ruthless underworld type, Vangos, who took advantage of her and despised her daughter. Roi, despite this contempt and oppression, found the courage to kill Vangos and was sentenced to many years in jail. Pantelis then took her child under his wing and raised her as his own. While Julia is waiting anxiously to meet her mother, she is fatally injured by a car. The climax of the story is that Agis and his fiancée are the ones to find her in the street, and they take her home, where the unfortunate Roi dies in their arms. A perfect example of the lachrymose Greek melodrama that characterized the career of Eleni Chatziargyri, in which she was inevitably cast in the role of dolefully wretched mothers. The film was originally directed by Grigoris Grigoriou, but then, because of disagreements with the producer Christos Spentzos, he withdrew from the production. The producer then had to complete the film himself, which is why he bears the title of director in this film.
  • Keywords: ΑΠΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΣΗ ΠΑΡΕΛΘΟΝ ΟΡΦΝΑΗ ΚΟΡΗ ΥΠΟΚΟΣΜΟΣ ΕΚΜΕΤΑΛΛΕΥΣΗ ΔΥΣΤΥΧΗΜΑ ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ / PRISON RELEASE PAST ORPHAN DAUGHTER UNDERWORLD EXPLOITATION ACCIDENT DEATH / ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΜΗΚΟΥΣ / ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗ / ΔΡΑΜΑΤΙΚΗ / ΜΕΛΟΔΡΑΜΑ / FEATURE FILM / SOCIAL DRAMA / DRAMATIC / MELODRAMA / ΑΠΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΣΗ ΠΑΡΕΛΘΟΝ ΟΡΦΝΑΗ ΚΟΡΗ ΥΠΟΚΟΣΜΟΣ ΕΚΜΕΤΑΛΛΕΥΣΗ ΔΥΣΤΥΧΗΜΑ ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ / PRISON RELEASE PAST ORPHAN DAUGHTER UNDERWORLD EXPLOITATION ACCIDENT DEATH / ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΜΗΚΟΥΣ / ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗ / ΔΡΑΜΑΤΙΚΗ / ΜΕΛΟΔΡΑΜΑ / FEATURE FILM / SOCIAL DRAMA / DRAMATIC / MELODRAMA / ΑΠΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΣΗ ΠΑΡΕΛΘΟΝ ΟΡΦΝΑΗ ΚΟΡΗ ΥΠΟΚΟΣΜΟΣ ΕΚΜΕΤΑΛΛΕΥΣΗ ΔΥΣΤΥΧΗΜΑ ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ / PRISON RELEASE PAST ORPHAN DAUGHTER UNDERWORLD EXPLOITATION ACCIDENT DEATH / ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΜΗΚΟΥΣ / ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗ / ΔΡΑΜΑΤΙΚΗ / ΜΕΛΟΔΡΑΜΑ / FEATURE FILM / SOCIAL DRAMA / DRAMATIC / MELODRAMA
  • Provider: Tainiothiki tis Ellados
  • Production company: SPENTZOS FILM
  • Director: SPENTZOS CHRISTOS