Cavewoman

During the Nazi invasion of Greece, a female resistance fighter embarks on a revenge operation to assassinate her own mother, in the name of God. Inspired by Euripides’s Electra.

Cast

Angeliki Papoulia

as Cavewoman

Ewen Bremner

as Brother

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