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A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.


Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made by the honest engraver in the first story, seduced by the charms of a young widow, and it subsequently passes into the hands of a beggar and a prostitute, a wealthy miser and a newly married couple where the husband is a poor artist.

Vasilis Logothetidis
Anargyros Loumbardopoulos

Ilia Livykou
Fifi

Mimis Fotopoulos
Beggar

Sperantza Vrana
Maria

Orestis Makris
Vasilis Mavridis

Ellie Lambeti
Aliki

Dimitris Horn
Pavlos

Dimitris Myrat
Narrator

Vagelis Protopapas
Dinos

Maria Kalamiotou
Fanitsa
The Counterfeit Coin is a comedy, romance, drama film released in 1955 exploring themes of greece, counterfeit, 1950s, interlinked stories. Directed by Yorgos Tzavellas, it stars Vasilis Logothetidis, Ilia Livykou, Mimis Fotopoulos. Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made by the honest engraver in the first story, seduced by the charms of a young widow, and it subsequently passes into the hands of a beggar and a prostitute, a wealthy miser and a newly married couple where the husband is a poor artist.
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