West Germany: Alien Horror

When he first came from his home town of Valtero, in northern Greece, Miltiades Vlachos seemed just another one of the horde of foreign workers who have gone to work in West Germany's booming factories. He settled in Wuppertal, where his wife Eketerini and his elder daughter Helena joined him to work at a cable plant. Vlachos, 42, however, was a moody, tempestuous man, and he eventually lost his job through an argument with a foreman. So when his son Ioannis, 22, who worked near by, decided to send for his 18-year-old wife Niki, the family delegated the idle...

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