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
00:12:07 -How is Krystallo? -Praise the Lord.
00:15:13 -Bravo! -...to save him and he grabs him and takes him out.
00:17:57 Because his mother saw a bad dream.
00:19:11 I would drown in the river.
00:21:01 I saw Kristallo kissing by her fence with Yannena's son!
00:21:48 Who gave my daughter a cross when he saw her by the fountain.
00:23:15 Where is Maro?
00:24:24 That girl you saw by the fountain and you gave her that cross.
00:25:22 Why are you crying, my child? What's wrong?
00:26:44 Thank you my child. I give you my blessing. Thank you.
00:29:30 We'll go to the festival. You'll dance...
00:36:00 And take his knife.
00:39:28 Do you know who am I?
00:40:47 Also at your wedding, girls.
00:45:33 Ease his heart and save my Liakos.
00:47:34 day and night in the mountain
00:49:27 Sit down here. What's wrong?
00:50:27 So uncle, you won't tell him?
00:51:51 Why only one wreath? Where is the other one?
00:53:14 Then know that the one you have loved for years
00:55:02 I'm old now Mitros, my love.
00:56:19 Take my life and leave the grudge behind.