66th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
31 OCTOBER → 9 NOVEMBER 2025
Retrospectives - Tributes: Jean Daniel Pollet

8 35mm Colour
A young Siscilian aristocrat, Francesco Montelepre, is swindled out of his fortune by Rizzardi, a gangster who has spent many years in America. Rizzardi wants to be the new master of the young man's land, and because of an age-old hatred against the Montelepre family, he will stop at nothing. Francesco escapes an attempt on his life and fleess to Greece, after first sscarring Rizzardi's face. Dissgraced, the older man goes after Francesco with a hatred so implacable, that only the young man's death will succeed in assuaging it.