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Knifer

Μαχαιροβγάλτης

2010

After his father's death, a listless young man moves in with his uncle in an isolated suburb, tending the older man's dogs and sinking into a grinding routine — until desire and resentment build toward a breaking point. A bleak, tightly wound drama.

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