Crete 1897. Greek rebels gained their freedom by fighting in the mountains. An allied fleet of French, English, Italian and Russian warships anchored in the port of Chania in protecting Greek and Turkish inhabitants. Rosa Bonaparte, accompanied by twelve girls off at a deserted beach with all the equipment of a Marseille brothel. Installed in a wing of a huge, ruined former Town Hall, where the officers of the allied fleet meet and entertain in the evenings surrounded by undercover agents, military connectors, and speculators : an East-West mosaic of languages, costumes and intrigue. Soon, a deadly conspiratorial game begins between the revolutionaries and their enemies...
Bordello, 1922 (1977) and Byron: Ballad for a Demon (1992) form a kind of trilogy in Koundouros oeuvre on the foundations of Modern Greece, the conflicts and the perils posed by the position of the country between the West and the East.
DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 02:07:51 | 4.36 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Greek
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama
Director: Nikos Koundouros
Cast: Marina Vlady, Eleonora Stathopoulou, Vasilis Laggos
Country: Greece
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