Feature film
Maiden's Cheek
Το ξύλο βγήκε από τον παράδεισο
Alekos Sakellarios · 1959
Synopsis
A young literature teacher, Pános Florás, is hired on probation at a private girls' school, where the pupils, children of wealthy Athenian families, make their masters' lives impossible. The most undisciplined of them, Líza Papastávrou, harasses him relentlessly; with the headmaster's agreement, he sets out to bring her into line. The more ruses she invents to take revenge, the more love grows between them and complicates everything.
Context
The film transposes a comedy by its author staged in Athens in the spring of 1944, with María Kaloutá in the role of the pupil; the screen widens the plot outwards, as far as a mountain excursion. It is Sakellários's first film with Alíki Vougiouklaki. Mános Hadjidákis wrote the music and songs, Ntínos Katsourídis the photography and editing. The film represented Greece at the Edinburgh festival in August 1961.
Who it is for
A comedy of about an hour and a half, in Greek, with songs. It still often shows on Greek television and exists in a restored copy.
Prizes and reception
Awarded a prize in 1960 at the first Thessaloniki festival among the three best Greek films of 1955 to 1960, it was also the top film at the box office in its season.
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