The Enemy Within (2013) : distribution, intrigue et streaming

Released in 2013, The Enemy Within is a thriller and drame film directed by Giorgos Tsemperopoulos, running about 107 minutes.

What it’s about. Revenge is a recurrent theme in thrillers, usually dispensed by action heroes with a well-stocked arsenal. But in Yorgos Tsemberopoulos’s nuanced moral maze the protagonist is the bookish Kostas (Manolis Mavromatakis), a suburban florist well versed in social and political theory, which he discusses at length with a local publican. But when his home is invaded by masked hoodlums, who bind his family and rape his teenage daughter, our everyman hero finds his intellectual stance untenable. Encouraged by his paranoid, militarist neighbour, Kostas decides to take the law into his own hands, and in doing so begins to understand – for the first time – the world he has been living in. The vigilante movie is a well-explored genre too, but Tsemberopoulos gives it a whole new urgency, subverting the cliched right-wing fantasy structure and seeing it through the eyes of a man who comes to find his real self while trying to live up to the (imagined) expectations of others. (Source: LFF programme)

Who’s in it. The Enemy Within stars Manolis Mavromatakis as Kostas Stasinos / Father, Maria Zorba as Rania Stasinou / Mother, Yorgos Gallos as Sotiris Logaras / Neighbor and Yiorgos Gallos as Sotiris Logaras / Neighbor, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 5.8/10, The Enemy Within has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch The Enemy Within page.

If you liked it. Fans of The Enemy Within tend to enjoy The Dark Knight : Le Chevalier noir, Pulp Fiction, Parasite and Fight Club.