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A Girl in Black: Directed by Michael Cacoyannis. With Ellie Lambeti, Dimitris Horn, Eleni Zafeiriou, Stefanos Stratigos. Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love's unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a morosely beautiful daughter, and a scorned local suitor.
- (1.1K)
- Drama, Romance
- Michael Cacoyannis
- 1956-03-19
A Girl in Black (Greek: Το Κορίτσι με τα Μαύρα) is a 1956 Greek dramatic film by the Cypriot director Michael Cacoyannis starring Dimitris Horn and Ellie Lambeti. The film takes place on the Greek island of Hydra , where two Athenian visitors become entangled in local feuds after one of them falls in love with a local girl.
Under the cloudless summer sky--against the backdrop of a derelict mansion ravaged by death, hate, and shame in post-Greek-Civil-War Hydra--a silently sinister undercurrent of intense rivalry among men unfolds. Eager to spend their carefree vacation at the sun-kissed Saronic island, well-to-do Athenian writer Pavlos, and his equally ...
But after Stella, and now A Girl in Black, Cacoyannis has just become my latest great discovery in world cinema. A Girl in Black is a tragedy that ends with a hopeful note, but even the gorgeous cinematography of a small Greek island couldn’t lighten up the gloominess of our black-attired heroine, who’s living under suffocating social norms that bought her shame, guilt, and desolation.
- (493)
- Hermes Film
- Mihalis Kakogiannis
Tragic love story on the Greek island of Hydra, in which a holidaying young writer falls for a local beauty and thereby becomes involved in island feuds.
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Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love's unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a morosely beautiful daughter, and a scorned local suitor. And then, calamity strikes. Can love redeem the sad girl in black? Mihalis Kakogiannis. Director, Screenplay.
