SYNOPSIS: Young Aphrodites presents a world of primitive love and lust, erotic passions, and innocent physical longing as two adolescents experience sensual awakening in a savagely nomadic world.  Both exotic and sensual, this magnificently photographed film is a poetic ode to the beginning of adulthood and the loss of innocence.

EDITORIAL REVIEW: This movie is about a group of male shepherds who stumble upon a quiet village in search of water.  What they find is not only plenty of drinking water, but a lot of women....and only women. It seems as if all of the men of the village went in search of food, leaving the women behind to care for the village.  This is just fine for two of the visiting shepherds: Tsakalos, played by Takis Emmanuel, and Skymnos, played by 11-year-old Vangelis Ioannidis.  Tsakalos finds love at first site with Arta, a married woman who wants nothing to do with him or the rest of the herders.  Young Skymnos finds love and beauty in Chloe, but she's not too impressed with his barbaric attempts to get closer.  As Skymnos soon realizes, he's not the only one who is attracted to Chloe and finds competition within his own tribe. 

Director Nikos Koundouros, winner of the Best Director award at the Berlin Film Festival, filmed among the old ruins and landscapes of Greece and used authentic shepherds, peasants and popular dancers to recreate the mood and atmosphere of a time long ago.  This film was based on material found in the pastoral Idylles of Theocritus written in the Third Century B.C. and the classical ancient text of Longus' "Daphnis and Chloe".  It was set in 200 B.C.

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STARRING: Vangelis Ioannidis, Kleopatra Rota, Eleni Prokopiou, Takis Emmanuel.
AVAILABILITY: In stock! Ships within one business day.
LENGTH: 91 minutes.
LANGUAGE: Greek, with OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
SPECIAL FEATURES: 1.33:1 (4:3 Full Screen); 2.0 Mono; 1 disc; Chapter selection; Director's vision; Filmography; Uncut.
VIEWER DISCRETION: Moderate to frequent nudity, sexual situations; sexual innuendo, violence.
PICTURE QUALITY: Excellent picture quality.  (what's this mean?)
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Greece (1963).
ALSO KNOWN AS: Mikres Afrodites (original title) / Simadi tis Afroditis, To (Greece) (video title).
DATE ADDED TO OUR LIBRARY:  June 15, 2007.
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