Murder Backstage | |
Director: | Dinos Katsouridis |
Starring: | Alekos Alexandrakis Maro Kontou Hristos Tsaganeas Titos Vandis Aliki Georgouli Georges Sarri Dimos Starenios |
Music: | Mimis Plessas |
Distributor: | Damaskinos-Mihailidis S.A. |
Runtime: | 90 minutes |
Country: | Greece |
Language: | Greek |
Murder Backstage (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Έγκλημα στα παρασκήνια) is a 1960 Greek theatrical film noir film starring Alekos Alexandrakis, Maro Kontou, Hristos Tsaganeas, Titos Vandias, Aliki Georgouli, Georges Sarri and Dimos Starenios. The writer was from the famous police novelist Giannis Maris.
A well known actress of the theatre is assassinated and the simultaneously one of these actors of the theatre escapes. The police, along with the journalists of a newspaper company ask the edge of the filament for located the assassin. The action occurs during the occupation period of World War II.
The movie was presented with the presentation of an American film noir that made it one of the greatest Greek movies of the time, it was awarded twice at the first Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1960 (see 1960 Thessaloniki Film Festival.