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A Matter of Dignity: Directed by Michael Cacoyannis. With Ellie Lambeti, Athena Michaelidou, Eleni Zafeiriou, Giorgos Pappas. A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionaire for his money in marriage.
- (689)
- Drama
- Michael Cacoyannis
- 1958-02-10
Up against the ugly monster of destitution, the members of a once-affluent Athenian family of the haute-bourgeoisie, suddenly, find themselves on the brink of bankruptcy, forced to live on borrowed money.
The daughter of an affluent family, Chloe (Ellie Lambeti), discovers that her family's affluence is pretty much a put-on. They are going broke, and going fast. They have pushed themselves into the bourgeosie of Athens, which has run them out of money. But it's difficult to give up such a lifestyle.
A Matter of Dignity (Greek: Το τελευταίο ψέμα, translit. To teleftaio psema) is a 1958 Greek drama film directed by Michael Cacoyannis. It was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.
A Matter of Dignity ★★ To Telef-teo Psemma 1957. Chloe (Lambetti), whose family is on the brink of financial ruin, agrees to marriage with an incredibly boring millionaire to try and save them. She has to make a painful journey of self-discovery in order to escape the shallowness of how she was raised and the life she doesn't want to lead.
From A Matter of Dignity: I realized that I needed to learn about the legislative and legal aspects of disability as much as I did about our feelings regarding wholeness, beauty and ugliness, about the state called normalcy, about liberating technologies and therapies, about the role of the disabled in history and literature.
The family, proud of their prominent social position, struggles to maintain a facade of wealth to little avail. With bankruptcy imminent, their only hope is for Chloe to accept a marriage proposal from a Greek-American millionaire despite her love for another man.
