Young Aphrodites (1963) Mikres Afrodites
Young Aphrodites (1963)
DVDRip | MKV | 686x472 | x264 @ 1610 Kbps | 91 min | 1,18 Gb
Audio: Greek AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama, Romance
DVDRip | MKV | 686x472 | x264 @ 1610 Kbps | 91 min | 1,18 Gb
Audio: Greek AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Nikos Koundouros
Writers: Longus (play), Kostas Sfikas
Stars: Eleni Prokopiou, Takis Emmanuel, Kleopatra Rota
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).
IMDB - 8 wins
Not many people may have seen this film. It's probably almost impossible to get hold of these days. A great pity. I saw it twice in the seventies. Ever since the first viewing it has been in my personal top five. It's a story told in images, full of wonderful symbolism, beautifully photographed in black and white. It plays in a long ago Greece, in a village by the sea. The men are out fishing, the women are waiting for their return, and from the mountains a group of shepherds come down with their flocks. Thus the land meets the see, earth and water, male and female, birds and stones, a stork and a fish, birds captured in fishing nets etc. etc. This archetypical encounter is played out by the young (who remembers the intriguing poster of the prepubescent girl with the fishing net draped over her shoulder?) and the mature. I remember, when the film ended, I did not want it to end. I was feeling melancholic and a little sad that you could not be there as well. This film is like a dream you would wish you could dream every night.
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Young Aphrodites (1963) Mikres Afrodites
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