The read
It runs a compact 1h 10m.
Synopsis
Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
5 audience votes
Key crew
- Gregory J. MarkopoulosWriter
- Gregory J. MarkopoulosDirector
Cast
- Norma ValdiEirini Veni
- Kostas BaladimasDr. Dimitris Venis
- Vivian VerrilliAnna Venni
- Nina BobbieEleni Glaros
- Athena MichaelidouAunt Sophia
- Dimitri MarasAndreas, Aunt Sophia's Son
- Andreas PandopoulosA Water Diviner
- Lili YannikakiZambeta
- Margarita GoumasWidow
- Thanas VeloudiosOld Stathis
- Byron PallisMechanic
- Takis KavourasHaritos
Stills
Themes
rose gardenrapemarriage crisisrefugeeprisoner of warmigrationstrangulationavant-gardedisplacementgrave robberstatue