True Love

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It is the third film in a row of the type that much later on was called "fustanella (Greek kilt)", following Gkolfo by Bachatoris (1914) and Astero by Gaziadis (1929). It is based on the successful theatrical play (rhyming pastoral romance) by Dimitrios Koromilas, who draws his inspiration from a poem by Giannis Zalokostas "I fell in love with a shepherdess". The setting is Greece, a rural country in the middle of the 19th century. A landlord, Mitros, gives Kroustallo a golden cross as a gift to show her his tender feelings. He doesn't know, however, that she is already in love with Liakos, a destitute young shepherd to whom Mitros owes his life - in the past he had saved him from drowning in the river. The cross around the neck of the shepherdess causes fights between the two men, while Mitros asks Kroustallo's hand from her mother, Mrs. Stathaina, who had been his childhood love.

Country:

Greece

Genre:

Drama,

Romance

Duration:

95 minutes

Year:

1932

Director:

Ilias Paraskevas

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Company:

Olympia Film

Cast:
Sofia Dorival

Stathaina

Dimitris Tsakiris

Mitros

Nina Afentaki

Kroustallo

Aimilia Marikou

Gianaina

Michalis Vlahopoulos

Uncle Chronis

Crew:
Ilias Paraskevas

Director

Dimitris Tsakiris

Director

Dimitris Koromilas

Original Story

Dionyssios Lavrangas

Music

Herbert Körner

Cinematography