''Black Field'' ( el, Μαύρο Λιβάδι) is a 2009 Greek film, directed by
Vardis Marinakis
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. The film released in 2009 and it stars
Sofia Georgovassili and
Christos Passalis. It won one award in
Hellenic Film Academy Awards
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in category Best Cinematography. The film also won accolades in
Mumbai International Film Festival and
Seville European Film Festival. The film is shot in the places of
Epirus and
Thessaly.
Plot
In 1654 in Greece under
Ottoman rule, a solitary
janissary collapses from his wounds outside an isolated
Orthodox
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monastery for women. The nuns take him in and one with medical skills, Areti, tends him with the help of another, the young and shy Anthi. Both are fascinated by the presence of a man and, as he recovers, Areti starts an affair with him while Anthi has conflicting emotions. Learning that he is a deserter with a price on his head, the nuns realise that they dare not hide him and inform the authorities. As a contingent of soldiers arrives to collect him, Anthi escapes with him and the two go on the run. In the woods, a dark secret comes out. Anthi is in fact a boy, who was hidden in the monastery to avoid the
devsirme, the kidnapping of Orthodox children by the Ottomans as recruits for the army. Initially disgusted, the soldier slowly builds up a comradeship with the gauche lad but one day they are recaptured. Anthi is taken back to the monastery, where Areti is pregnant and hangs herself in despair. Anthi runs away and rejoins the janissary, who has killed his captors. The two go off into the woods again.
Cast
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Christos Passalis
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Sofia Georgovassili
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Despina Bebedelli
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Maria Panouria
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Despina Kourti
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Evangelia Andreadaki
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Awards
References
External links
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2009 films
Greek drama films
Films about deserters
Films set in the 1650s
Films set in the Ottoman Empire
Greek LGBT-related films
2009 LGBT-related films
2000s LGBT-related drama films
2000s Greek-language films
2000s Greek films
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