Life begins at forty

Life begins at forty

Life begins at forty

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Life begins at forty

1988

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Comedy

Overview

When you blow out 40 candles on your birthday cake, something changes inside you. Either you feel that, as a man, you are going downhill and retreat into your shell, or you rebel and try something new... a foreign dessert.

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Kostas Voutsas

Kostas Voutsas

Πάνος Φρίγκος

Yiouli Stamoulaki

Yiouli Stamoulaki

Στέλλα Φρίγκου

Yorgos Moutsios

Yorgos Moutsios

Τζακ

Aleka Labrinou

Τζένη

Nefeli Orfanou

Nefeli Orfanou

Μπέτυ

Franco Alfonso

Franco Alfonso

Βακαλογλου

Katerina Gounari

Λούλα

Giannis Goutis

Τάσος

Kostas Floratos

Kostas Floratos

λυκειάρχης

Tasos Polyhronopoulos

Tasos Polyhronopoulos

Αστυνόμος

Creative team

Directed by: Omiros Efstratiadis
Written by: Vyronas Makridis

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