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  • 2022
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2022
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 41 m

Summary A native farmer lives and works alone in a farmhouse in the heart of a mountain forest in Northern Greece. For years now, he had been fighting with an expanding industrial Monster digging up the forest, disturbing the lush flora and threatening his property. Yet, the greatest threat comes with the sudden arrival of his young son, after a...

Directed By: Georgis Grigorakis

Written By: Maria Votti, Vangelis Mourikis, Georgis Grigorakis

  • 2022
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2022
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 41 m

Digger

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary A native farmer lives and works alone in a farmhouse in the heart of a mountain forest in Northern Greece. For years now, he had been fighting with an expanding industrial Monster digging up the forest, disturbing the lush flora and threatening his property. Yet, the greatest threat comes with the sudden arrival of his young son, after a...

Directed By: Georgis Grigorakis

Written By: Maria Votti, Vangelis Mourikis, Georgis Grigorakis

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Metascore
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80
May 20, 2022
In this witty, windblown modern fable, man, nature and machine get to take turns being the enemy and the savior.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
70
May 20, 2022
Digger’s loyalties always reside with Nikitas, his quest to keep his home and his devotion to the woodlands; yet Grigorakis shows an environment- and economic-fuelled tragedy, too.
By Sarah Ward FULL REVIEW
60
May 20, 2022
It’s a shame that, as it ramps up, this generational tension isn’t dramatised with the sharpness it might have been.
By Phil Hoad FULL REVIEW
60
May 19, 2022
Its terse David and Goliath conflict doesn’t yield satisfyingly punchy results.
By Beatrice Loayza FULL REVIEW
50
May 20, 2022
Georgis Grigorakis’s film may not revolutionize the western genre by transposing it to an unlikely setting, but it doesn’t dilute it either.
By William Repass FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Haos Film, Le Bureau, Faliro House Productions, Match Factory Productions, FassB Filmproduktion, Blonde Audiovisual Productions, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), NCoded
Release Date May 20, 2022
Duration 1 h 41 m
Genres
Tagline A father and a son long lost. Love and hate. Digging deep into mud to find their roots. Revenge and Redemption. A Western, revisited.
Website http://www.georgisgrigorakis.com/
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Awards

Hellenic Film Academy Awards
• 10 Wins & 14 Nominations
Thessaloniki Film Festival
• 5 Wins & 7 Nominations
Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF)
• 3 Nominations

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