66th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
31 OCTOBER → 9 NOVEMBER 2025
National section: Competition

1997 100 35mm Colour
Eugene is a humble clerk who suffers the oppression of his environment without reacting. In the evenings though, he becomes Humphrey Bogart and wanders in the Athenian underworld where he will meet and fall in love with a barwoman. One day he witnesses a bank hold-up. As the gangsters run away, they take him as a hostage. Next day, as the result of a series of misunderstandings, the Press will depict him as a legendary outlaw with a double life. Eugene will convince his naďve jailers that he really is an outlaw, an urban Robin Hood. He will give them the chance to «work» for him, under his leadership, and a crazy game will begin, until the moment when...