True Love
1932 · 95 MIN · IMDB 5.9 · 67 VOTES · DIR. Dimitris Tsakiris, Ilias Paraskevas
Overview
It is the third film in a row of the type that much later on was called "fustanella (Greek kilt)", following Gkolfo by Bachatoris (1914) and Astero by Gaziadis (1929). It is based on the successful theatrical play (rhyming pastoral romance) by Dimitrios Koromilas, who draws his inspiration from a poem by Giannis Zalokostas "I fell in love with a shepherdess". The setting is Greece, a rural country in the middle of the 19th century. A landlord, Mitros, gives Kroustallo a golden cross as a gift to show her his tender feelings. He doesn't know, however, that she is already in love with Liakos, a destitute young shepherd to whom Mitros owes his life - in the past he had saved him from drowning in the river. The cross around the neck of the shepherdess causes fights between the two men, while Mitros asks Kroustallo's hand from her mother, Mrs. Stathaina, who had been his childhood love.
Dialogue Timeline — 344 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:08 Note: Widows used to also take their husband's name with the ending -ena
00:12:06 Good morning Mrs Stathena.
00:15:10 -What are you saying? -He takes of his coat and jumps in...
00:17:54 One for you and one for Liakos.
00:19:08 If it wasn't for Mr Mitros to jump in the water like a brave man
00:20:58 Hey mister!
00:21:47 Who is Mitros?
00:23:13 Maro!
00:24:21 Would you like to take Kristallo for your wife?
00:25:18 This is what he was telling me and I was happy.
00:26:41 Give this to him. Eveyone will be jealous of him at the dance.
00:29:09 What's wrong my child? You seem sad.
00:35:31 And tell your mother to control you, because you don't own the world. Go!
00:39:07 Because Liakos can't take you with him.
00:40:41 You sit there without dancing or singing.
00:45:27 I'm afraid for my child. In case he hurts himself.
00:46:41 We need to have a jug of water from the river as well.
00:49:21 -Uncle. My uncle! -What's wrong my child?
00:50:22 and he'll wreck this place.
00:51:35 It seems that this is it for us.
00:53:01 Why did you mess up everything and you don't give her to me?
00:54:53 My beloved Maro.
00:56:12 Split my chest open and take my heart out.
00:57:29 I wish you guys to live strong like the mountains.