A Matter of Dignity is a 1957 Greek

Cinema of Greece

Greece has a long and rich cinematic history. Greek films dominate the domestic market, for example Safe Sex had more box office receipts than Titanic. Characteristics of Greek cinema include a dynamic plot, strong character development and erotic themes...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Michael Cacoyannis. It was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival

1958 Cannes Film Festival

-Jury:*Marcel Achard * Tomiko Asabuki *Bernard Buffet *Jean De Baroncelli *Helmut Käutner *Dudley Leslie *Madeleine Robinson *Ladislao Vajda *Charles Vidor...

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Plot

The Pellas are magnates who face financial ruin. Desperate to conceal the dire straits they are in and maintain their social status, they plan to marry their beautiful daughter Chloe off to a wealthy, dull middle-aged man. Caught between caring for her family and her doomed love for her young but poor boyfriend, Chloe flees to her retired nanny.

Cast

• Ellie Lambeti
  Ellie Lambeti
  Ellie Lambeti was a Greek actress.-Family:Born in 1926 in Greece,her father owned a Greek tavern in the village of Vilia Attikis. She had six siblings. Her maternal grandfather was a Captain Stamatis who fought together with Kolokotronis against the Turks in 1821, when the modern Greek democracy...
  
   - Chloe Pella
• Athena Michaelidou - Roxanni Pella
• Eleni Zafeiriou
  Eleni Zafeiriou
  Eleni Zafeiriou was a Greek film actress. She appeared in 108 films between 1951 and 1996.She was born in Larissa, Greece, and died in Athens.-In film:* Bitter Bread * Dead City * I Agni tou limaniou...
  
   - Katerina
• Giorgos Pappas - Kleon Pellas (as Georgios Pappas)
• Michalis Nikolinakos
  Michalis Nikolinakos
  Michalis Nikolakos or Mihalis Nikolakkos was a Greek theatrical and cinematic actor. He was born in 1923 in Alyka, Laconia, in the southeastern Peloponnese. In his childhood years, he moved to Piraeus. After 1946, he studied both at the art school and the drama school of the Athens Odeum, where...
  
   - Galanos
• Dimitris Papamichael
  Dimitris Papamichael
  Dimitris Papamichael born 1934 in Athens; died 8 August 2004 in Athens 12pm at his house) was a famous Greek actor and director. He married Aliki Vougiouklaki, the national star of Greece for a decade,in 1965 and co-starred with her in films that marked the "golden era" of Greek cinema.-External...
  
   - Markos
• Minas Christidis - Nikos Dritsas
• Vasilis Kailas - Vasilakis (as Vasilakis Kailas)
• Zorz Sarri
• Despo Diamantidou
• Mairi Hronopoulou
• Despoina Nikolaidou
• Dimitris Hoptiris
• Dimitra Zeza
• Nikos Fermas
• Nikos Kourkoulos
  Nikos Kourkoulos
  Nikos Kourkoulos was a highly respected Greek theatrical and film performer, one of the most talented and recognizable actors in Greece of modern times...