WEBVTT 00:00:00.015 --> 00:00:20.015 ..:: Presented By ZarFilm Website ::.. .:: www.bolboljan.net ::. 00:00:39.939 --> 00:00:42.141 Alexandros, are you coming? We're going to the island. 00:00:42.275 --> 00:00:43.008 Where? 00:00:43.143 --> 00:00:46.779 To the island. We're going to dive to see the ancient city. 00:00:46.913 --> 00:00:51.817 Later, we'll go up to the rock... and we'll greet the passing boats. 00:00:52.218 --> 00:00:54.386 What do you know of the ancient city? 00:00:54.854 --> 00:00:59.558 Grandfather says that it was a happy city that was swallowed... 00:00:59.692 --> 00:01:02.361 by an earthquake and that it has slept under the sea for centuries. 00:01:02.529 --> 00:01:06.265 It comes out of the water once a month and for very a short time... 00:01:06.399 --> 00:01:11.103 when the morning star regrets to have to leave the Earth... 00:01:11.404 --> 00:01:15.074 and stops and contemplates it. And all stops then... Time also stops. 00:01:15.375 --> 00:01:16.542 Time... what is it? 00:01:16.676 --> 00:01:22.014 Grandfather says that time is a child that plays dice on the shore. 00:01:22.816 --> 00:01:24.216 Are you coming then? 00:05:05.538 --> 00:05:07.572 Alexandros! 00:05:12.278 --> 00:05:14.012 You fell asleep here... 00:05:15.882 --> 00:05:17.916 And you haven't eaten anything! 00:05:24.257 --> 00:05:27.859 I have a taste of salt... the taste of the sea in my mouth. 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:41.873 So, this is our last day... 00:05:42.742 --> 00:05:46.011 Let me come with you, tomorrow, to the hospital. 00:05:46.512 --> 00:05:49.748 Ourania, don't make things harder... 00:05:52.218 --> 00:05:55.087 After all, doesn't everything end sooner or later? 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:08.333 Coffee is served in the office... 00:06:11.070 --> 00:06:13.205 I've also packed your suitcase. 00:06:13.539 --> 00:06:17.576 It's not too full, I hope. It's useless... You know it well. 00:06:19.946 --> 00:06:22.079 Ourania... 00:06:29.589 --> 00:06:32.257 Ourania, thanks for the 3 years that you spent here. 00:06:35.762 --> 00:06:38.630 Without you, I don't know what I would have become. 00:06:49.909 --> 00:06:51.910 The dog has eaten. 00:08:50.296 --> 00:08:51.963 For the last few months... 00:08:53.232 --> 00:08:55.567 my only contact with the world... 00:08:56.836 --> 00:08:59.304 has been this unknown neighbour of mine, 00:09:00.506 --> 00:09:02.974 who always answers to me with the same music. 00:09:05.811 --> 00:09:07.212 A man? 00:09:08.347 --> 00:09:09.681 What does he look like? 00:09:13.286 --> 00:09:15.487 One morning, I wanted to go and meet him, 00:09:16.556 --> 00:09:18.290 but then I changed my mind. 00:09:20.092 --> 00:09:23.795 Maybe it's better not to meet him but imagine him. 00:09:27.033 --> 00:09:29.234 Is he a hermit like me? 00:09:32.104 --> 00:09:34.239 Or perhaps a little girl 00:09:36.142 --> 00:09:38.410 who, before leaving for school... 00:09:39.779 --> 00:09:41.646 plays with the unknown. 00:09:48.020 --> 00:09:50.155 Everything happened by so quickly! 00:09:52.792 --> 00:09:57.362 That pain... my stubbornness to want to learn, to want to know... 00:10:00.199 --> 00:10:01.900 then the darkness... 00:10:04.503 --> 00:10:06.171 the silence around me... 00:10:07.273 --> 00:10:08.673 the silence. 00:10:11.644 --> 00:10:14.813 All made me believe that before the end of winter... 00:10:16.515 --> 00:10:21.319 with the ethereal silhouettes of the boats and their sudden breakthroughs in the sky 00:10:22.788 --> 00:10:27.125 with the lovers along the promenade, in the declining sun, 00:10:28.894 --> 00:10:31.763 and the hypocritical promise of the spring, 00:10:36.268 --> 00:10:41.072 all made me believe that before the end of winter... 00:10:45.044 --> 00:10:46.845 My only regret, Anna... 00:10:49.215 --> 00:10:50.749 - but is it only that? - 00:10:53.452 --> 00:10:56.054 ...is not to have finished almost anything. 00:10:58.491 --> 00:11:00.825 I left all as a draft, 00:11:02.895 --> 00:11:05.530 shattered words here and there. 00:12:33.219 --> 00:12:34.119 Get in! 00:13:13.292 --> 00:13:14.692 Where do you come from? 00:13:19.632 --> 00:13:21.232 Do you speak Greek? 00:13:24.570 --> 00:13:26.404 Do you want me to take you somewhere? 00:14:41.113 --> 00:14:42.347 Hello dad. 00:14:44.650 --> 00:14:46.451 What brings you here on Sunday? 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.929 You don't answer the phone. I've been calling for 15 days. 00:14:59.031 --> 00:15:01.833 I was worried. What happened? 00:15:01.967 --> 00:15:04.335 I must leave for a while. 00:15:05.237 --> 00:15:08.006 I don't know where to leave the dog, Katerina. 00:15:11.543 --> 00:15:13.211 Do you want to drink something? 00:15:15.681 --> 00:15:17.048 There's some coffee... 00:15:17.182 --> 00:15:18.850 I've also brought these. 00:15:21.353 --> 00:15:23.655 Some of your mother's old letters. 00:15:24.189 --> 00:15:25.990 My mother's letters? 00:15:29.461 --> 00:15:32.864 You're leaving, you said? Where are you going? 00:15:35.734 --> 00:15:39.470 You know? Nikos doesn't want animals in the house. 00:15:46.545 --> 00:15:48.179 And your work, how is it going? 00:15:50.449 --> 00:15:51.416 My work? 00:15:51.550 --> 00:15:54.819 Your work on "The Free Besieged" of Solomos. 00:15:55.254 --> 00:15:57.322 The unfinished third part. 00:15:57.957 --> 00:16:00.692 Isn't that you were working on when mom died? 00:16:01.193 --> 00:16:05.096 Besides, I've never understood how come a great writer like you... 00:16:05.230 --> 00:16:09.834 all of a sudden abandoned his work to finish an incomplete 19th century poem. 00:16:12.271 --> 00:16:14.238 Don't tell me that you've dropped it too! 00:16:15.107 --> 00:16:20.411 I don't know, maybe I couldn't find the words... 00:16:23.115 --> 00:16:26.117 This one has no envelope. Why? 00:16:28.554 --> 00:16:29.954 Shall I read it? 00:16:38.063 --> 00:16:42.633 "September 20th, 1966". My day! 00:16:43.936 --> 00:16:46.804 Mom often spoke to me of that day. 00:16:49.908 --> 00:16:52.243 "You were still sleeping when I woke up." 00:16:53.345 --> 00:16:55.747 "I watched you breathe." 00:16:56.815 --> 00:16:59.751 "Were you dreaming, Alexandros?" 00:16:59.918 --> 00:17:06.457 "You moved your hand slightly as if you were looking for me." 00:17:06.592 --> 00:17:10.928 "Your eyelids blinked, then you dove back into sleep." 00:17:12.297 --> 00:17:16.868 "A drop of sweat rolled between your eyes..." 00:17:17.169 --> 00:17:19.037 "and travelled." 00:17:20.439 --> 00:17:24.042 "From aside, the baby uttered a little moan." 00:17:24.610 --> 00:17:26.511 "A door moved." 00:17:27.579 --> 00:17:29.280 "I went to the veranda..." 00:17:30.883 --> 00:17:32.283 "and cried." 00:17:33.118 --> 00:17:34.519 Goodmorning Anna. 00:17:36.822 --> 00:17:39.524 I'm having strange dreams these days. 00:17:44.463 --> 00:17:45.563 Were you crying, Anna? 00:17:45.697 --> 00:17:46.964 It's nothing. 00:17:49.735 --> 00:17:51.002 You were crying. 00:17:51.403 --> 00:17:52.737 It's nothing. 00:17:52.871 --> 00:17:54.739 Did anything happen? What's wrong? 00:17:58.977 --> 00:18:00.244 Anna, you were crying. 00:18:00.345 --> 00:18:01.979 Nothing happened. 00:18:02.948 --> 00:18:04.015 So? 00:18:05.717 --> 00:18:07.151 How do I look? 00:18:07.252 --> 00:18:08.753 Like a summer day! 00:18:08.854 --> 00:18:10.154 Liar! 00:18:10.389 --> 00:18:12.990 And the gain weight due to my pregnancy? 00:18:13.892 --> 00:18:15.526 Is this a new dress? 00:18:15.661 --> 00:18:16.661 You don't remember it? 00:18:16.795 --> 00:18:17.862 No, I don't. 00:18:22.167 --> 00:18:24.469 You brought it to me from one of your journeys. 00:18:31.810 --> 00:18:34.045 You only think about your book! 00:18:37.249 --> 00:18:40.885 When will you send it to the editor, so we can stay together? 00:18:41.487 --> 00:18:46.357 "... If only I could keep that moment..." 00:18:46.458 --> 00:18:48.086 "pin it up like a butterfly to prevent it from flying away." 00:18:48.227 --> 00:18:49.560 They arrived! 00:18:50.229 --> 00:18:52.697 Go to dress! Quickly! 00:18:53.065 --> 00:18:54.765 Go to dress! 00:19:30.636 --> 00:19:31.736 Welcome! 00:19:32.938 --> 00:19:36.107 "I'm writing to you in front of the sea..." 00:19:36.241 --> 00:19:37.942 "that lies motionless" 00:19:38.677 --> 00:19:42.346 "In the house you can smell the hot milk and the humid jasmine." 00:19:42.648 --> 00:19:44.549 "I'm writing to you, I'm talking to you..." 00:19:45.484 --> 00:19:49.287 "I'm feeling so close to you that you're trying to resist." 00:19:50.222 --> 00:19:52.590 "Do you think that I threaten your world, Alexandros?" 00:19:53.825 --> 00:19:56.561 "Yet, I'm just a woman in love." 00:20:00.032 --> 00:20:01.098 Is the little one sleeping? 00:20:01.233 --> 00:20:03.100 She's with her other grandmother, on the beach. 00:20:03.235 --> 00:20:06.170 Grandmother... Like Me! God, I have grown old! 00:20:06.438 --> 00:20:10.775 You see, my daughter, by playing the part of the naive all the time, your mother got naive. 00:20:10.909 --> 00:20:14.812 Not all her roles were naive. She played Hecuba, Clytemnestra... 00:20:14.947 --> 00:20:17.815 My wife is always extreme. 00:20:18.083 --> 00:20:20.585 Dad, stop teasing her all the time! 00:20:21.486 --> 00:20:23.054 - What about here name? - Did you decide yet? 00:20:23.522 --> 00:20:25.590 Eleni or Katerina... 00:20:25.791 --> 00:20:28.726 It depends on which grandmother will get angrier. 00:20:28.927 --> 00:20:31.696 You shine, you know. My little Anna, a mom! 00:20:31.830 --> 00:20:34.098 I am going to put the flowers in a vase. 00:20:34.299 --> 00:20:38.469 As far as I remember, this house hasn't changed at all. 00:20:40.272 --> 00:20:43.975 This will be the last careless summer, Alekos! 00:20:44.109 --> 00:20:45.643 What are you talking about? 00:20:45.811 --> 00:20:49.947 Everybody speaks of an intervention of the army before the elections, 00:20:50.082 --> 00:20:53.351 but you politicians, you play dumb! 00:20:54.019 --> 00:20:55.786 "At night, I looked at you." 00:20:56.455 --> 00:20:59.123 "I didn't know if you were sleeping or you were just being quiet." 00:21:00.525 --> 00:21:03.094 "I was afraid of what you could think," 00:21:05.163 --> 00:21:07.765 "afraid of invading your silence." 00:21:09.568 --> 00:21:11.302 "So I started looking vulnerable..." 00:21:11.436 --> 00:21:14.905 "with the only way i knew... My body." 00:21:16.041 --> 00:21:19.010 "because that was the only that way that didn't make you feel threatened." 00:21:21.013 --> 00:21:24.482 "I am just a woman in love, Alexandros." 00:21:29.021 --> 00:21:30.755 Where’s the lucky father hiding? 00:21:30.889 --> 00:21:34.158 Plunged in his thoughts, uncle, as always. He's there without being there. 00:21:34.293 --> 00:21:38.062 As children we had to speak in a low voice when he was working. 00:21:38.196 --> 00:21:40.431 Father got angry when someone disturbed his beloved son! 00:21:55.814 --> 00:22:00.084 And now, if you want to see the little wonder, follow me! 00:22:46.298 --> 00:22:47.998 She's beautiful, isn't she? 00:22:58.009 --> 00:23:00.244 "I walked naked on the sand." 00:23:01.113 --> 00:23:02.747 "The wind was blowing," 00:23:03.648 --> 00:23:05.783 "a boat passed by." 00:23:07.252 --> 00:23:09.286 "You weren't getting up." 00:23:10.422 --> 00:23:12.957 "I could still feel your heat on my body." 00:23:15.961 --> 00:23:19.230 "I didn't dare to dream that you were dreaming of me!" 00:23:21.099 --> 00:23:23.134 "Oh! Alexandros..." 00:23:23.902 --> 00:23:27.271 "If I could have believed it only for an instant," 00:23:27.439 --> 00:23:29.940 "I would have let myself scream." 00:23:31.476 --> 00:23:33.277 Did you say something, dad? 00:23:42.387 --> 00:23:44.054 You are leaving already? 00:23:47.492 --> 00:23:49.894 I had not understood... 00:23:53.832 --> 00:23:55.099 Goodmorning. 00:23:55.834 --> 00:23:57.902 I'm glad you came, I wanted to speak to you. 00:23:58.236 --> 00:24:01.505 You know, we sold the beach house. 00:24:06.244 --> 00:24:08.579 The house? You sold it? 00:24:09.147 --> 00:24:12.016 Tomorrow morning, I'll give them the keys and the bulldozer will start working. 00:24:17.355 --> 00:24:18.889 Is that your dog? 00:24:20.759 --> 00:24:22.293 I am going to dress. 00:24:24.396 --> 00:24:26.397 Don't take it so much to heart, dad! 00:24:26.765 --> 00:24:29.500 What's wrong with you? You look so pale. 00:24:31.036 --> 00:24:33.337 Do you remember our first journey? 00:24:36.074 --> 00:24:38.409 How old were you? Fifteen? 00:24:39.511 --> 00:24:42.213 The two of us in Yannina for that damn tennis championship! 00:24:42.347 --> 00:24:45.049 You lost and you started crying. 00:24:45.684 --> 00:24:47.885 We had no choice, father... 00:24:48.220 --> 00:24:51.288 Only two people, Nikos and me, in that huge house... 00:24:51.423 --> 00:24:54.658 damaged by the earthquake and surrounded by buildings. 00:24:55.527 --> 00:24:58.829 We walked hand in hand along the banks of the lake. 00:24:59.231 --> 00:25:01.398 I tried everything... 00:25:02.334 --> 00:25:04.235 you were inconsolable! 00:36:14.205 --> 00:36:17.774 A glass of water, please, and a sandwich. 00:36:30.788 --> 00:36:32.689 I have a clandestine kid on board... 00:36:32.823 --> 00:36:33.823 So what? 00:36:34.258 --> 00:36:37.127 A little refugee from Albania... of Greek origin apparently. 00:36:37.261 --> 00:36:38.195 So what? 00:36:39.230 --> 00:36:41.765 How long does it take from here to reach the Albanian border? 00:36:41.899 --> 00:36:44.534 2 hours... Maybe more if it snows. 00:36:44.669 --> 00:36:46.102 You have to cross the mountain. 00:36:47.605 --> 00:36:50.073 Why don't you ask that bus driver? 00:36:51.309 --> 00:36:54.277 He's going to Pentalofo in the north, not far from the border. 00:37:56.307 --> 00:37:59.509 He ran away! 00:37:59.644 --> 00:38:01.711 They do that all the time! The cops keep catching them... 00:38:01.846 --> 00:38:04.848 and send them back home but the keep returning. 00:39:14.952 --> 00:39:16.586 How did you come to Greece? 00:39:18.356 --> 00:39:19.789 Don't you want to tell me? 00:39:21.158 --> 00:39:23.426 Is your village far from the border? 00:39:25.129 --> 00:39:26.396 Do you have a family over there? 00:39:26.530 --> 00:39:27.964 My grandmother. 00:39:28.999 --> 00:39:31.835 That bus goes to Pentalofo, close to the border. 00:39:33.904 --> 00:39:37.907 I could not leave you there after what happened. Do you understand? 00:39:39.677 --> 00:39:42.078 I'm leaving on a journey tomorrow. I don't have the time... 00:39:44.648 --> 00:39:48.084 Once there, the driver will find you a taxi to get to the border. 00:39:50.187 --> 00:39:52.021 Don't you want to go to your grandmother? 00:39:56.494 --> 00:40:01.231 # Little exiled bird # 00:40:01.365 --> 00:40:05.735 # and unhappy 00:40:06.070 --> 00:40:10.473 # a foreign country is happy to have you 00:40:10.608 --> 00:40:14.744 # and I long for you 00:40:15.045 --> 00:40:19.015 # What can I send you my little flower? # 00:40:19.150 --> 00:40:21.050 Did you say "my little flower"? 00:40:23.087 --> 00:40:24.287 Repeat... 00:40:25.122 --> 00:40:27.857 What did you say? The song... Say it again! 00:40:39.904 --> 00:40:42.872 I could not leave you like that. I had to find a solution. 00:41:29.887 --> 00:41:31.354 I know what you want, 00:41:31.822 --> 00:41:33.756 but I can't leave you like that! 00:41:34.225 --> 00:41:35.692 I just can't! 00:42:13.664 --> 00:42:14.831 Goodmorning. 00:42:15.666 --> 00:42:17.233 A glass of water. 00:42:23.641 --> 00:42:26.309 Where can I find a taxi to take the child to the border? 00:42:26.443 --> 00:42:28.745 It won't be easy to find, the road is terrible. 00:42:28.879 --> 00:42:30.947 My son-in-law has a taxi. Shall I call him? 00:42:31.081 --> 00:42:32.048 Yes. 00:42:36.453 --> 00:42:38.621 He'll be here in 10 minutes. 00:42:46.664 --> 00:42:50.867 Giorgos, 4 glasses of raki and something to eat! 00:43:58.936 --> 00:44:02.772 # If I send you an apple, it'll rot # 00:44:02.906 --> 00:44:06.776 # If I send you a quince it'll dry # 00:44:10.547 --> 00:44:14.250 # a bunch of white grapes # 00:44:14.385 --> 00:44:18.287 # will lose its beads along the way # 00:44:21.392 --> 00:44:26.262 # I'll send you a tear in a... # 00:44:36.907 --> 00:44:40.076 What's wrong? You're trembling! 00:44:42.179 --> 00:44:44.113 Were you afraid of the police? 00:44:54.224 --> 00:44:55.558 No. 00:45:02.933 --> 00:45:04.634 It's yours. 00:45:11.108 --> 00:45:12.942 Remember those words, on the motorway... 00:45:13.077 --> 00:45:15.912 "my little flower"? 00:45:19.083 --> 00:45:20.783 Do you know what a poet is? 00:45:27.791 --> 00:45:31.060 If I had the time, I would tell to you the story of a poet... 00:45:31.228 --> 00:45:33.229 who used to buy words. 00:45:40.237 --> 00:45:41.604 I understand. 00:45:43.540 --> 00:45:45.408 Let's go. You are going to freeze... 00:45:46.910 --> 00:45:48.077 Let's go. 00:48:00.611 --> 00:48:02.845 The armed gangs came down to the streets. 00:48:05.616 --> 00:48:07.717 The men were shooting all night. 00:48:10.787 --> 00:48:12.889 They entered several houses. 00:48:17.027 --> 00:48:18.861 Babies were crying... 00:48:21.798 --> 00:48:23.566 The village became deserted. 00:48:25.102 --> 00:48:27.169 The passage is up there. 00:48:29.573 --> 00:48:32.675 My buddy Selim knew it, he had already crossed it. 00:48:37.447 --> 00:48:40.149 There are a few signs left by some grown-ups, 00:48:43.987 --> 00:48:46.522 some plastic bags hanging from the trees. 00:48:50.627 --> 00:48:54.430 If you don't know, you get lost. The snow eats you up. 00:48:59.703 --> 00:49:01.904 Passing these bags... 00:49:04.274 --> 00:49:07.176 you arrive at a bare plateau. 00:49:10.580 --> 00:49:12.882 Selim started screaming... 00:49:15.352 --> 00:49:18.054 because I didn't know 00:49:18.078 --> 00:49:20.078 and kept on walking. 00:49:22.292 --> 00:49:25.027 "There are hidden bombs there, bonehead!" - he tells me. 00:49:27.064 --> 00:49:28.464 "Get down! " 00:49:30.467 --> 00:49:31.667 I did. 00:49:32.135 --> 00:49:34.203 He took a big stone... 00:49:35.572 --> 00:49:37.373 and threw it in front of him... 00:49:38.108 --> 00:49:42.078 then he crouched down, before it fell on the snow. 00:49:43.013 --> 00:49:45.114 Nothing happened, 00:49:47.184 --> 00:49:50.419 so we continued. 00:49:51.989 --> 00:49:54.223 He had me crouch down, 00:49:55.859 --> 00:49:57.960 I took the stone... 00:49:58.895 --> 00:50:01.030 and threw it farther. 00:50:04.167 --> 00:50:06.535 I was afraid, I was cold... 00:50:09.573 --> 00:50:11.440 We started walking again. 00:50:13.810 --> 00:50:16.145 And that way, throwing the stone, 00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:19.482 we reached the other side. 00:50:20.650 --> 00:50:22.952 We saw the lights far away. 00:52:37.621 --> 00:52:39.822 I don't have anybody. I lied. 00:52:42.459 --> 00:52:44.894 I have to leave tomorrow, I told you. 00:54:13.316 --> 00:54:15.050 You've fooled me again! 00:54:18.388 --> 00:54:20.055 A sandwich, please! 00:54:43.480 --> 00:54:45.247 Don't you ever eat? 00:54:46.049 --> 00:54:47.383 Sometimes. 00:54:49.519 --> 00:54:51.453 I know what a poet is. 00:54:51.588 --> 00:54:52.755 Do you? 00:54:57.494 --> 00:54:58.861 I see... 00:55:01.765 --> 00:55:03.866 Once there was a poet, 00:55:05.468 --> 00:55:07.303 last century. 00:55:08.271 --> 00:55:09.872 A great poet. 00:55:10.507 --> 00:55:12.074 He was Greek... 00:55:12.842 --> 00:55:15.311 but he grew up and lived in Italy. 00:55:17.681 --> 00:55:19.748 One day, he learned that the Greek... 00:55:20.050 --> 00:55:24.720 who were under the Ottoman, got their weapons 00:55:25.522 --> 00:55:26.922 to earn their freedom. 00:55:30.393 --> 00:55:32.828 Then he felt nostalgic... 00:55:34.130 --> 00:55:36.031 for his forgotten country, 00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:39.335 his early years on the island, 00:55:40.170 --> 00:55:43.706 his mother's face, who still lived there. 00:55:44.774 --> 00:55:48.844 He had no peace anymore. He was feeling delirious everytime he walked. 00:55:50.013 --> 00:55:53.782 Every night, he dreamt of his mother... 00:55:54.984 --> 00:55:57.586 in her bridal white dress, 00:55:57.721 --> 00:55:59.321 calling him. 00:56:26.082 --> 00:56:27.950 I made up my mind! 00:56:28.084 --> 00:56:31.153 I'm leaving for Greece. I cannot stay here. 00:56:31.588 --> 00:56:34.256 After so many centuries, Greeks got their weapons. 00:56:38.795 --> 00:56:40.763 What can a poet do? 00:56:44.167 --> 00:56:46.101 Sing for the revolution, 00:56:46.669 --> 00:56:48.337 cry over the dead, 00:56:48.972 --> 00:56:51.407 invoke the lost face of freedom. 00:57:45.161 --> 00:57:48.130 The following day, he took a boat from Venice... 00:57:48.631 --> 00:57:53.101 and went back to Greece, in Zakynthos... 00:57:53.269 --> 00:57:56.972 his island. 00:57:57.073 --> 00:57:58.607 He recognised the faces, the colours, the perfumes... 00:57:59.476 --> 00:58:01.643 his house... but he couldn't speak the language. 00:58:02.812 --> 00:58:05.581 He wanted to sing for the revolution, 00:58:05.949 --> 00:58:08.650 but he couldn't speak his mother's language. 00:58:14.190 --> 00:58:17.092 Then he started going through the popular districts... 00:58:17.227 --> 00:58:18.894 the fields, the fishermen's villages, 00:58:19.229 --> 00:58:21.897 writing down the words that he heard, 00:58:22.365 --> 00:58:25.634 and paying for those that he heard for the first time. 00:58:27.203 --> 00:58:28.904 The news spread everywhere. 00:58:29.439 --> 00:58:31.573 "The poet buys words!" 00:58:32.876 --> 00:58:35.043 From then on, wherever he went, 00:58:35.411 --> 00:58:38.981 poor people all over the island, old and young... 00:58:39.883 --> 00:58:44.019 were chasing him to sell him words. 00:59:00.603 --> 00:59:01.770 Abyss... 00:59:12.081 --> 00:59:14.049 Fragrant... 00:59:26.496 --> 00:59:27.863 Dew... 00:59:34.370 --> 00:59:35.604 Stream... 00:59:42.445 --> 00:59:44.012 Nightingales... 00:59:49.319 --> 00:59:50.819 Sky... 00:59:57.994 --> 00:59:59.394 Wave... 01:00:02.298 --> 01:00:03.899 Lake... 01:00:12.342 --> 01:00:14.343 Unknown... 01:00:20.617 --> 01:00:22.484 Scent... 01:00:24.754 --> 01:00:26.321 Moonstruck... 01:00:29.058 --> 01:00:30.659 Moonstruck. 01:01:02.258 --> 01:01:05.861 Moonstruck, tell me, what did you see tonight? 01:01:06.696 --> 01:01:08.830 A night full of miracles. 01:01:09.132 --> 01:01:11.333 A night full of magic. 01:01:13.336 --> 01:01:15.337 Moonstruck. 01:01:38.294 --> 01:01:40.962 And so he wrote his ”Hymn to liberty". 01:01:42.965 --> 01:01:45.367 He wrote more poems of course... 01:01:45.868 --> 01:01:48.003 among which a very long, incomplete one, 01:01:48.171 --> 01:01:51.039 that he called "The Free Besieged". 01:01:51.941 --> 01:01:54.876 He spent the rest of his life trying to finish it. 01:02:10.693 --> 01:02:13.695 But he never did. He lacked some words. 01:07:05.454 --> 01:07:07.355 I brought the dog, Ourania. 01:07:10.593 --> 01:07:12.460 I couldn't find somewhere to leave him. 01:07:13.696 --> 01:07:15.363 My son is getting married. 01:07:16.432 --> 01:07:20.001 Forgive me, I didn't want to spoil your feast. 01:07:20.770 --> 01:07:24.172 I don't know where to leave him. I am sorry... 01:07:24.673 --> 01:07:27.475 Let me come with you tomorrow. 01:07:36.018 --> 01:07:38.119 The bride is beautiful! 01:07:42.091 --> 01:07:46.594 You know, my daughter and her husband sold the beach house. 01:07:48.397 --> 01:07:49.731 I wanted to... 01:07:56.272 --> 01:07:57.972 Maybe he's hungry. 01:10:37.266 --> 01:10:40.768 I see you smiling but you are sad. 01:10:57.353 --> 01:10:59.387 Do you want me to bring you a few words? 01:11:04.460 --> 01:11:06.461 They'll cost you a lot! 01:11:29.084 --> 01:11:30.618 Stranger... 01:11:30.786 --> 01:11:34.989 Stranger... exile... 01:11:35.424 --> 01:11:37.825 Stranger everywhere... 01:11:46.902 --> 01:11:48.603 Did you just hear that expression? 01:11:49.438 --> 01:11:53.908 No. I heard it in my village, from women. 01:11:55.177 --> 01:11:57.178 Do you want me to bring you others? 01:12:38.487 --> 01:12:42.223 Where? On the island, Anna? 01:12:57.206 --> 01:12:58.506 Anna... 01:14:07.743 --> 01:14:10.044 Mom, I am afraid that the sun will harm you! 01:14:14.349 --> 01:14:17.285 I've been dreaming of your father, lately. 01:14:19.922 --> 01:14:21.422 Every night. 01:14:23.358 --> 01:14:25.059 I miss him so much! 01:14:26.895 --> 01:14:28.763 He left too early. 01:14:31.166 --> 01:14:33.067 You were on a journey, as usual! 01:14:33.168 --> 01:14:35.770 Mother, my first book was published in France. 01:14:36.138 --> 01:14:38.639 You were never too close to him. 01:14:39.475 --> 01:14:41.342 You were always contradicting him, 01:14:41.643 --> 01:14:43.411 and he suffered for that. 01:14:44.279 --> 01:14:46.747 But I returned immediately. 01:14:49.885 --> 01:14:51.953 What are you two plotting? 01:14:52.754 --> 01:14:54.188 Your hat, mother. 01:14:54.623 --> 01:14:56.390 I should have stayed with the baby! 01:14:56.492 --> 01:14:59.093 Melpo and the children are with her. 01:14:59.228 --> 01:15:01.496 I should have stayed with the baby! 01:15:01.597 --> 01:15:04.031 Melpo is with her, don't worry! 01:15:14.042 --> 01:15:17.211 "I'm trying to kidnap you between two books." 01:15:18.280 --> 01:15:22.550 "You live your life close to us, your daughter and me..." 01:15:22.918 --> 01:15:24.952 "but not with us." 01:15:26.855 --> 01:15:29.490 "I know that one day you will leave." 01:15:30.025 --> 01:15:33.060 "The wind pushes your eyes away." 01:15:33.529 --> 01:15:37.732 "But share this day with me..." 01:15:39.167 --> 01:15:41.235 "as if it was our last." 01:15:42.471 --> 01:15:44.539 "Share this day with me!" 01:16:36.391 --> 01:16:40.027 Let's swim! 01:16:47.402 --> 01:16:48.669 What are you thinking of? 01:16:50.606 --> 01:16:52.106 I'm going up for a while! 01:16:53.041 --> 01:16:54.375 Traitor! 01:16:54.643 --> 01:16:58.479 Why are you angry, Anna? Please! It won't take long. 01:17:00.349 --> 01:17:01.515 Please... 01:17:06.254 --> 01:17:07.555 It won't take long. 01:17:09.625 --> 01:17:10.992 Traitor! 01:18:22.964 --> 01:18:27.435 Christos... Vassilis... Alexandros... 01:18:27.569 --> 01:18:30.004 Summer of '39. 01:20:20.949 --> 01:20:22.116 Good evening. 01:20:25.187 --> 01:20:26.620 Good evening, doctor... 01:20:26.755 --> 01:20:28.589 Sorry, I was distracted. 01:20:28.723 --> 01:20:31.959 I was worried for you. I feared that... 01:20:34.095 --> 01:20:36.597 It's spreading faster than you thought… isn't it? 01:20:41.503 --> 01:20:43.270 My body doesn't obey anymore... 01:20:45.106 --> 01:20:50.244 my body, whose outline vanish in the mirror and become shade. 01:20:54.416 --> 01:20:57.518 I'll go to the hospital tomorrow. The pain is getting strong. 01:20:59.354 --> 01:21:00.487 Well.... It was hard for me... 01:21:01.957 --> 01:21:06.393 to tell you about that. 01:21:08.196 --> 01:21:10.130 I had such an admiration for you! 01:21:11.266 --> 01:21:14.935 Our generation grew up reading your books and your poems. 01:21:19.441 --> 01:21:23.110 Anyway, I have to go. They're waiting for me. 01:23:18.626 --> 01:23:21.261 Why did you disappear? I was looking for you. 01:23:24.132 --> 01:23:26.166 What happened? 01:23:42.717 --> 01:23:44.184 Selim... 01:24:09.644 --> 01:24:10.911 Good evening. 01:24:11.379 --> 01:24:14.248 Who let you in? It's forbidden, don't you know? 01:24:14.349 --> 01:24:17.217 A boy that cleans car windows on the streets was brought here... 01:24:17.318 --> 01:24:19.286 He was run over by a bus on the boulevard. 01:24:19.387 --> 01:24:21.155 I already told you it's forbidden. 01:24:21.723 --> 01:24:24.425 Listen, the coroner knows me. 01:24:25.160 --> 01:24:26.427 Does he? 01:24:26.694 --> 01:24:28.729 Let me make a phonecall. 01:25:46.541 --> 01:25:48.208 Selim... 01:28:31.806 --> 01:28:33.407 Hey Selim! 01:28:41.849 --> 01:28:45.052 What a pity you can't be with us tonight. 01:28:46.421 --> 01:28:47.821 Hey Selim! 01:28:50.925 --> 01:28:54.328 I'm scared Selim. 01:28:54.929 --> 01:28:57.230 The sea is so big. 01:28:59.667 --> 01:29:02.135 What awaits for us in the place where you're going, Selim? 01:29:02.537 --> 01:29:04.805 What does the place where we'll all go look like? 01:29:09.877 --> 01:29:14.548 Mountains or cliffs, policemen or soldiers, 01:29:15.550 --> 01:29:17.417 we never quailed. 01:29:17.585 --> 01:29:21.888 All I can see is the sea, now, the endless sea. 01:29:26.327 --> 01:29:32.199 At night i saw my mother, in front of her door with tears on her face. 01:29:33.701 --> 01:29:35.869 It was Christmas. The bells were ringing. 01:29:37.271 --> 01:29:42.542 The mountain was full of snow. 01:29:45.780 --> 01:29:50.150 If only you were here to talk to us 01:29:50.451 --> 01:29:52.886 about all those ports: Marseille or Naples, 01:29:52.987 --> 01:29:55.222 and about the vast world. 01:29:58.092 --> 01:30:03.029 Hey Selim talk to us about the vast world. 01:30:03.698 --> 01:30:07.434 Hey Selim talk, talk to us. 01:30:14.709 --> 01:30:16.009 Hey Selim, hey Selim... 01:31:37.525 --> 01:31:38.825 Good evening! 01:32:44.859 --> 01:32:48.261 Good evening. I'll be right back. 01:32:48.696 --> 01:32:50.764 I'd rather leave you alone. 01:33:04.679 --> 01:33:06.012 Mother... 01:33:08.883 --> 01:33:11.318 Forgive me for not coming earlier... 01:33:14.121 --> 01:33:16.723 You know, there's always something... 01:33:23.030 --> 01:33:24.364 Mother... 01:33:27.101 --> 01:33:29.002 I came to say goodbye. 01:33:33.174 --> 01:33:34.774 I'm leaving. 01:34:05.640 --> 01:34:07.641 Alexandros! 01:34:15.016 --> 01:34:17.484 Alexandros! The table is set. 01:34:22.189 --> 01:34:24.557 I'm coming! 01:34:31.465 --> 01:34:34.334 Maria, take good care of my big brother! 01:34:34.468 --> 01:34:37.737 I can manage myself. Others may need help. 01:34:37.838 --> 01:34:40.073 Where were you? Your father-in-law got worried. 01:34:40.174 --> 01:34:42.609 No, not me. Your mother! 01:34:43.077 --> 01:34:45.345 And what does the left wing say, Alexandros? 01:34:45.479 --> 01:34:46.746 About what? 01:34:47.648 --> 01:34:49.449 Come here, call the children! 01:34:49.583 --> 01:34:52.318 The table is set. Alexandros is here! 01:34:54.088 --> 01:34:56.289 What does the world look like, seen from above? 01:34:56.390 --> 01:34:57.957 Magical! 01:35:06.901 --> 01:35:08.334 Am I late, mother? 01:35:08.569 --> 01:35:10.103 You'll never grow up. 01:35:10.237 --> 01:35:13.606 As a child you used to ran away like that. Table is set. 01:35:16.477 --> 01:35:17.711 Where is Anna? 01:35:18.145 --> 01:35:20.046 Anna? 01:35:21.515 --> 01:35:23.650 Let's go in the cave up there. 01:36:06.393 --> 01:36:09.229 I'm going to look for Anna! 01:36:21.108 --> 01:36:22.408 Where are you going Anna? 01:36:23.410 --> 01:36:24.577 You lost your head! 01:36:29.483 --> 01:36:31.785 "Away, away, to the open sea..." 01:36:32.787 --> 01:36:34.854 "your island is traveling." 01:36:36.390 --> 01:36:40.059 "One of your shirts, forgotten on the balcony, trembles in the wind" 01:36:41.962 --> 01:36:45.732 "Oh you, protected by the shadow of a room..." 01:36:46.167 --> 01:36:48.935 "overrun by the voices of the night," 01:36:50.070 --> 01:36:52.572 "I look at you with closed eyes," 01:36:52.773 --> 01:36:57.243 "I listen to you with sealed ears. With no mouth, I implore you" 01:36:59.613 --> 01:37:01.648 The table settings... 01:37:07.788 --> 01:37:09.489 the silver plate... 01:37:14.295 --> 01:37:16.095 my dowry... 01:37:18.999 --> 01:37:21.234 my dowry. 01:37:25.339 --> 01:37:27.440 Where did you put them? 01:37:30.644 --> 01:37:33.146 They were still here yesterday. 01:37:56.971 --> 01:37:58.338 Yesterday... 01:38:01.242 --> 01:38:03.176 they were still here. 01:38:27.268 --> 01:38:29.002 Why mother... 01:38:33.274 --> 01:38:36.976 nothing happens as we wish? 01:38:39.480 --> 01:38:40.813 Why? 01:38:45.953 --> 01:38:48.554 Why do we have to rot... 01:38:51.525 --> 01:38:53.426 helpless... 01:38:54.561 --> 01:38:57.463 between pain and desire? 01:39:04.338 --> 01:39:07.340 Why did I live my life in exile? 01:39:12.579 --> 01:39:15.081 Why did i only felt at home... 01:39:15.416 --> 01:39:19.419 when i was able to speak my own language? 01:39:22.022 --> 01:39:24.090 My own language, 01:39:26.794 --> 01:39:29.996 when I could find the lost words... 01:39:31.332 --> 01:39:35.034 or bring the forgotten words out of silence. 01:39:43.210 --> 01:39:47.814 Why only then i could hear the echo of my own footsteps in the house? 01:39:59.793 --> 01:40:00.994 Why? 01:40:29.556 --> 01:40:31.190 Tell me, mother, 01:40:35.696 --> 01:40:39.432 why didn't we know how to love? 01:41:18.806 --> 01:41:20.706 I wanted to say goodbye. 01:41:28.816 --> 01:41:30.516 Are you leaving tonight? 01:41:33.220 --> 01:41:34.954 Are you going to leave in the dead of the night? 01:41:36.023 --> 01:41:37.356 I thought... 01:41:39.960 --> 01:41:41.994 You made me think... 01:41:43.497 --> 01:41:47.033 You are leaving too. I won't have anybody anymore. 01:41:54.074 --> 01:41:55.241 You will. 01:41:56.443 --> 01:41:58.377 A big journey soon, 01:42:00.080 --> 01:42:02.782 the ports, the whole world. 01:42:12.626 --> 01:42:13.893 Goodbye. 01:42:21.702 --> 01:42:23.336 Stay with me! 01:42:30.844 --> 01:42:33.479 The boat leaves in two hours. 01:42:35.382 --> 01:42:37.350 I only have tonight. 01:42:42.156 --> 01:42:43.756 Stay with me. 01:42:57.604 --> 01:42:59.105 I'm scared. 01:43:01.341 --> 01:43:02.808 I'm scared too. 01:43:05.679 --> 01:43:07.146 Stay with me. 01:43:10.083 --> 01:43:11.517 Stay with me. 01:43:27.968 --> 01:43:29.335 Shall we catch it? 01:45:16.143 --> 01:45:17.710 "Asomaton" stop. 01:46:12.232 --> 01:46:13.966 50 drachmas more. 01:46:27.614 --> 01:46:28.981 Two student tickets. 01:46:37.023 --> 01:46:39.258 Maria, why do you leave when I'm speaking to you? 01:46:42.262 --> 01:46:44.864 You don't have any reason to get annoyed. 01:46:52.539 --> 01:46:55.174 We need new ways of artistic expression Maria. 01:46:57.077 --> 01:46:59.645 And if we can't find them, we'd better have none! 01:47:00.113 --> 01:47:03.949 I love you, I love you with all my heart... 01:47:04.084 --> 01:47:06.318 but you lead a meaningless life. 01:47:06.453 --> 01:47:08.621 You show off with that writer... 01:47:08.755 --> 01:47:11.157 All the newspapers write about you, 01:47:11.291 --> 01:47:13.325 and I'm tired of it. And yet I love you! 01:47:13.460 --> 01:47:15.594 Why do you leave when I'm talking to you? 01:51:34.320 --> 01:51:37.289 The last cool star of dawn was... 01:51:37.924 --> 01:51:41.160 foretelling the brightest sunshine; 01:51:41.728 --> 01:51:45.397 no cloud, no drift of mist was travelling 01:51:46.066 --> 01:51:48.367 across any part of the sky. 01:51:49.202 --> 01:51:51.970 Coming from there, the breeze 01:51:52.539 --> 01:51:55.340 blew so sweetly across the face, 01:51:55.775 --> 01:51:58.877 so gently, that it seemed 01:52:00.080 --> 01:52:01.714 to whisper to the depths of the heart: 01:52:02.816 --> 01:52:03.949 "life is sweet" and... 01:52:07.454 --> 01:52:09.354 "life is sweet". 01:52:32.278 --> 01:52:33.512 Tell me... 01:52:36.149 --> 01:52:38.150 tomorrow... how long will it last? 01:55:11.371 --> 01:55:13.372 It's time, isn't it? 01:55:16.242 --> 01:55:17.743 "Argadini". 01:55:20.947 --> 01:55:22.214 What did you say? 01:55:22.882 --> 01:55:24.349 Argadini. 01:55:26.953 --> 01:55:28.453 Argadini? 01:55:29.322 --> 01:55:32.824 It means: very late. 01:55:35.595 --> 01:55:36.962 Very late. 01:55:43.636 --> 01:55:46.238 Very late in the night. 01:56:12.999 --> 01:56:14.766 I must leave. 01:56:33.953 --> 01:56:35.253 Goodbye! 02:03:04.610 --> 02:03:06.911 "I'm writing you this letter, in front of the sea," 02:03:07.046 --> 02:03:08.947 "again and again..." 02:03:09.281 --> 02:03:11.416 "I write to you, I talk to you." 02:03:15.588 --> 02:03:16.955 "When..." 02:03:19.024 --> 02:03:22.293 "When one day you remember this day..." 02:03:22.395 --> 02:03:23.862 "remember..." 02:03:25.197 --> 02:03:28.299 "'i watched it with full-sized eyes...'" 02:03:30.136 --> 02:03:32.670 "'i caressed it with both hands.'" 02:03:34.140 --> 02:03:37.108 "I am here waiting for you, trembling." 02:03:39.845 --> 02:03:41.880 "Share this day with me" 02:04:29.929 --> 02:04:32.831 Alexandros! 02:05:23.616 --> 02:05:24.716 Anna... 02:05:24.850 --> 02:05:26.217 Wanna dance? 02:05:27.219 --> 02:05:31.789 I know that you're avoiding it, but today is my day. 02:07:24.803 --> 02:07:29.107 Anna, I won't go to the hospital. 02:07:31.276 --> 02:07:33.211 I won't go to the hospital, Anna. 02:07:35.147 --> 02:07:36.581 I won't. 02:07:45.557 --> 02:07:47.892 I'd like to make plans for tomorrow. 02:07:51.363 --> 02:07:54.165 The unknown neighbour will always answer to me with the same music... 02:08:02.174 --> 02:08:06.444 and there will always be someone to sell me some words. 02:08:12.985 --> 02:08:14.152 Tomorrow... 02:08:16.221 --> 02:08:17.989 What is tomorrow, Anna? 02:08:20.926 --> 02:08:23.961 I once asked you "how long will tomorrow last?" 02:08:26.065 --> 02:08:27.732 and you answered me: 02:08:29.334 --> 02:08:31.569 Eternity and a day. 02:08:36.642 --> 02:08:38.176 I didn't hear you. 02:08:39.411 --> 02:08:41.546 I didn't hear you. What did you say? 02:08:41.980 --> 02:08:44.348 Eternity and a day! 02:08:49.655 --> 02:08:50.722 Anna... 02:09:10.042 --> 02:09:13.711 My passage to the other side, tonight. 02:09:17.716 --> 02:09:19.884 I brought you back with words. 02:09:23.222 --> 02:09:24.522 You are here... 02:09:28.327 --> 02:09:30.661 and everything is true and waiting 02:09:33.632 --> 02:09:35.066 for the truth. 02:09:38.837 --> 02:09:40.338 The truth. 02:09:44.443 --> 02:09:46.577 # My little flower... # 02:09:54.753 --> 02:09:56.454 Stranger... 02:10:00.659 --> 02:10:01.926 Me... 02:10:10.102 --> 02:10:11.702 Argadini... 02:11:00.419 --> 02:11:02.587 Alexandros! 02:11:02.611 --> 02:11:22.611 Telegram Channel and Instagram Page .:: @bollbolljan_com ::.