Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.
Direction
Markopoulos's fractured editing that makes time feel infected.
Cinematography
Greek light weaponized against family darkness.
Director
Gregory J. Markopoulos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Markopoulos withdrew all his Greek films from circulation in 1967, making this surviving 'wrong' version a ghost haunting a ghost. The director died believing his true edit was lost forever.
The rose garden central to the film was real — Markopoulos filmed at his own family estate in Annavysos, casting relatives and excavating actual family trauma.
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