The Drunkard

There is a poor cobbler. He lost his son in the Second World War. After that loss he began drinking heavily. The neighbourhood makes a joke of him for it. The weight of it falls mostly on his daughter. Then his daughter and a rich young man fall in love. Now the man tries to hide his drinking. He wants to keep it from the young man’s family. But he cannot manage it. The film tells this as a drama. Orestis Makris and Dimitris Horn take the leads, with Billy Konstadopoulou and Athanasia Moustaka also in the cast, in Yorgos Tzavellas’s Greek film of 1950.