The Daughter of the Sun

1971
5| 1h32m| en
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The plain of Thessaly, 1910. The tenant farmers suffer untold hardships, both from the Arvanites invaders who ravage and seize their possessions and from the chief landlord of the area Stratos Karatzas, who claims the lion’s share of their harvest. The dynamic daughter of one of the tenant farmers, Maya, who is about to get married to a young farmer, Lefteris, leads their struggle for better conditions and confronts Karatzas – as well as his niece Vgenio, who also wants Lefteris. The latter plots and succeeds to separate them. Lefteris leaves for the army and Karatzas persuades Maya to marry him. Lefteris is captured during an ambush set by the Turks, but in the end he is set free and returns to Maya’s arms forever.

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Also starring Nikos Galanos

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BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
nikolas34 It was about 10 years ago when I first saw this masterpiece and I really could not believe that greek cinema could offer such a great piece of art to the world. A lot of discussion has been done about Aliki Vougiouklaki and a lot has been written about her acting abilities. But it seems that people often underestimate and tend to forget what a great actress Nonika Galinea has been. A possible explanation is that her antagonism with Aliki led her to extinction. You just have to watch this movie to realize why a lot of us have been magnetized all these years by her performance: Nonika is an extraordinary, marvellous actress that even nowadays has a lot to offer to world cinema and theatre...

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