To Win the Lottery

To Win the Lottery

4.8IMDb Score
Released:1970-01-01
Genre:Comedy
Duration:90 min
Country:Greece
Director:Dinos Dimopoulos
Actors:Dinos Iliopoulos, Anna Matzourani, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Rika Dialyna, Giorgos Papazisis
Production:Karagiannis-Karatzopoulos

Overview:

A poor and oppressed employee wins the football bet lottery and decides to live the life he dreamed so many years, wastefully scattering his money.

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