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‘The Birthday Party’: Heretic Wraps Production On Tycoon Family Drama With ‘Poor Things’ Star Willem Dafoe


The 'Poor Things' stars in the tycoon family drama, which is directed by Miguel Angel Jimenéz based on the novel of the same name by Panos Karnezis.

Additional cast includes Christos Stergioglou, Carlos Cuevas, Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos, Fransesc Garrido, Maria Pau Pigem, Pelle Heikkilä and Elsa Lekkakou. The story is set in the late 1970s somewhere in the Mediterranean where Marcos Timoleon, an Aristotle Onassis-like tycoon, is throwing a lavish, extravagant birthday party for Sofia, his daughter and sole heiress, on his exclusive private island. As guests start pouring in and night falls, the party grows rowdier and more decadent, while the inevitable clash between Marcos and Sofia reaches a heartbreaking climax.

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