Cavewoman

Cavewoman

2022 · 94 min · ★ 6.0 · Drama, History

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.

Directed by Spiros Stathoulopoulos · Written by Spiros Stathoulopoulos

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