The Man Who Returned from the Heat

Original title: O anthropos pou gyrise apo ti zesti

1972
1h 29m

IMDb RATING

5.2/10

505

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Labros Konstadaras in The Man Who Returned from the Heat (1972)

Comedy Drama

After twenty long years in Africa, an estranged father and now a successful middle-aged businessman decides to return home with his trusted valet to be once more a reassuring father figure; ... Read allAfter twenty long years in Africa, an estranged father and now a successful middle-aged businessman decides to return home with his trusted valet to be once more a reassuring father figure; however, isn't it too little too late?After twenty long years in Africa, an estranged father and now a successful middle-aged businessman decides to return home with his trusted valet to be once more a reassuring father figure; however, isn't it too little too late?

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IMDb RATING

5.2/10

505

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The movie was screened between 1972-1973 and sold 92,400 tickets. It came 22nd out of 64 movies.

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Featured review

2/10

Great actors, horrible script.

This wannabe family comedy makes an honest efort to be entertaining. However everything falls apart, the minute we see Y. Moutsios playing the valet in a blackface makeup. From that point on, the film simply exploits one stereotypical, if not racist, joke after another. Of course, certain allowances have to be made, given the fact that Greece was being run by a military junta, nationalism was dominant and a native African actor would probably have not been considered acceptable for a family comedy (let alone the fact that a native African actor was very difficult to find in the Greek society of the 70's). But even if we make these allowances, the end result remains poor. It should be clarified, however, that the actors that appear in the film were all extremely talented and everyone revered them. In this case they had to deal with a mission impossible: make an incurably cheesy script seem believable. It's not their fault that the effort fell through.