296:. A shepherd character named Lamon, finds a young boy sucking milk from one of its goats. He calls the boy Daphnis and adopts the boy as his child. Around the same time, another shepherd Dryas finds a young girl named Chloe and adopts her. Both children are raised as shepherds. In the film Daphnis and Chloe, the two small shepherds, grow up together in the mountains of the ancient Greek island of Lesbos and with the arrival of puberty. The children began to have sexual desires. The children become confused and agitated. They do not know how to respond to the call of the flesh. A young prince persistently desires Chloe but she is finally saved by Daphne who violently intervenes. Daphnis is arrested and sentenced to be flogged to death but at the last moment, it is revealed that the young shepherd, who had been abandoned as an infant in the forest, belongs to a noble family. Daphnis asks to marry his beloved, but now new class barriers are erected, until the final revelation that Chloe is also of noble birth, and everybody’s happy because they’re now rich and money is the only real happiness in the world.
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shades of black and white, in contrast to the orthochromatic film which gave pure white-black shades. Finally, the first of any other
European film directors, Laskos presented a nude actor, which is why when the film was released it was labeled by some as pornography. Chloe's costumes were the same as those used in the Delphic Festivals.
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The original print and negatives of the film were lost for many years. At some point they were in the United States, that's why there were
English subtitles in some parts of it. The film was restored by the technical service of the film archive of Greece in 1992, with the cooperation of the director.
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The film remains faithful to the ancient work. It was based on the translation of the original by Ilias
Voutieridis, published in 1922. The bucolic landscape was satisfactorily represented and the heroes were dressed in ancient fashion. The film offers discrepancies: Laskos did not add the raid of
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The film was shot in different areas on the island of Lesvos namely
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The film by Laskos presented a series of firsts. It moved the lens while shooting. The shooting style was usually the camera staying still at the time. He used the new style in the scene of the nymphs that was filmed in Lake
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The film was made at the height of the Greek film era between 1925 and 1935. During this time over forty feature films were produced in Greece. The Greek film was also one of the first script-written films for cinema and adapted from the
Ancient Greek story by Lungos. Famous Greek actor Kimon
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falsely. The film was shot in Lesvos, the place where the story of Daphne and Chloe took place, specifically in
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