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A peaceful innocent man is mistaken for a serial ravisher and killer who looks very much like him. He finds himself on the run by everyone that knows him, and finally hides inside a night club owned by small crooks. In his face, they see the leader that will give them everything they desire…Read More »
Synopsis:
In the Hellenistic period, around 200 B.C., a group of shepherds led by Molossos (Zannino) move from the mountain to the plain, in search of new pastures for their flocks. The shepherds lose their way and find refuge near a beach, by a fishing village, next to a group of women whose husbands, all fishermen, are away. Two young children, Skymnos who’s about 10 years old and twelve-year old Chloe (Vangelis Ioannidis, Kleopatra Rota) are initiated in the secrets of love by watching the love-making of a shepherd, Tsakalos (Takis Emmanouil), with a local woman, Arta (Eleni Prokopiou).Read More »
January 1824. Lord Byron arrives in Messolonghi, a seemingly unimportant, filthy and surrounded by an unhealthy lagoon small town on the western coast of Greece, in order to be proclaimed “General of the Greeks” in their revolution against the mighty Ottoman Empire. Away from his homeland, life-weary and possessed by his daemons, the great romantic comes to this besieged, depressive and defended by semi-barbarians town for his last heroic stand.Read More »