''The Lovers Arrive'' () is a

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...

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black and white comedy

film A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ...

made by Anzervos and based on a theatrical play '' O erastis erhete'' (''Ο εραστής έρχεται'') by Georgios Roussos. It was directed and written by

Giorgos Tzavellas George Tzavellas, also rendered Giorgos Tzavellas, Yiorgos Tzavellas, or Yorgos Javellas (, 1916, Athens – October 18, 1976), was a Greek film director, screenwriter, and playwright. His filmmaking was particularly influential, with critic Georg ...

Plot

Mina arrives from

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to visit her cousin Lela. On their way to Lela's house Lela confesses that her husband, Potis, doesn't pay much attention to her and their marriage due to his work in as an owner of a soap manufacturing factory. Then Mina advises Lela to let Potis understand that she had an affair with someone called Pipis (diminutive of Spyros r Spyrus. In the start, he doesn't realise the game that Lela plays, but after he meets with his best man Markos, who has just learnt that his wife had a relationship with another man, Potis changes his mind and starts to be suspicious of his wife. After the collection of some "clues" and the "precious" advice by Markos, he concludes that the lover of his wife is his neighbour Spyros. Spyros has a very jealous wife, Jenny, and when Lela tells Potis that she aims to go on an excursion in Zoumperi, and Spyrus goes to Thebes for a professional affair, Potis thinks he will surprise Spyros and Lela and proves that his wife has a lover. So he collaborates with envious Jenny and they put a recorder in Spyros' car to record Lela's and Spyros dialogue. But instead the recorder catches a dialogue between Jenny and Potis and now he and Jenny seem to be lovers! But the next morning Markos, Potis and Spyros meet at a cafe and the truth is revealed. Markos was responsible because he was cinemaholic and he thought that what happened in the films he watched happened also in the real life. Lastly, Mina has a wedding proposal by phone, she leaves for Patras to marry, Spyros and Jenny go to Thebes together, and Markos and his wife return home, all these with Spyros' car. And Lela and Potis love each other again and they together close the door of the garden with Potis promising not to forget her and their marriage again due to the soaps.

Cast

* Vassilis Logothetidis ..... Potis Antonopoulos * Ilya Livykou ..... Lela Antonopoulou * Vangelis Protopappas ..... Markos Manolopoulos *

Smaro Stefanidou Smaro Stefanidou (; 9 April 1913 – 7 November 2010) was a Greece, Greek theatre, film, television and radio actress. Biography Her family's origin is from Asia Minor. She graduated from Business School in Athens, she learned foreign langu ...

..... Mina Moutsopoulou * Lambros Konstantaras ..... Spyros Argyriou * Kaiti Lambropoulou ..... Jenny Argyriou * Kyveli Theochari ..... Kiki Manolopoulou * Nikos Rizos ..... Mistos * Taigeti ..... Ms. Kokkinou * Antigone Koukouli ..... Katina * Nikos Kazis ..... Pipis

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