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1981 · 98 mins · Greek
Directed by
Lakis Papastathis
Starring
Yvonne Maltezou, Smaragda Smyrnaiou, Giorgos Kotanidis, Alexis Damianos, Nena Menti, Stavros Mermigis

Set at the turn of the twentieth century, a young Greek merchant is seized by brigands in a remote mountain area, who plan to ransom him from his wealthy family. Among them he grows sympathetic toward the brigand and begins to see their lifestyle and moral code as a truer expression of ‘New Hellenism’ than the comforts of his bourgeois upbringing.

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