Peppermint | |
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Directed by | Costas Kapakas |
Written by | Costas Kapakas |
Starring | Georges Corraface Any Loulou Alexandros Mylonas Nikoletta Vlavianou Tasos Palatzidis |
Cinematography | Giannis Daskalothanasis |
Edited by | Takis Yannopoulos |
Music by | Panagiotis Kalatzopoulos |
Release date |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | Greece |
Language | Greek |
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Old schoolmates attend a reunion party, and an aviation engineer amongst them takes a trip down memory lane. As he reminisces about his childhood and his extraordinary relationship with his cousin Marina, the viewer looks on the lives of the protagonists, taking a glimpse of the Greek society between 1955 and 1973. [3]
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