Black Field (2009 Greek film)

Black Field
Directed by	Vardis Marinakis
Written by	Vardis Marinakis
Starring	Christos Passalis; Sofia Georgovassili
Cinematography	Marcus Waterloo
Edited by	Yannis Chalkiadakis
Running time	104
Country	Greece
Language	Greek

Black Field (Greek: Μα?ρο Λιβ?δι) is a Greek film, directed by Vardis Marinakis. The film released in 2009 and it stars Sofia Georgovassili and Christos Passalis. It won one award in Hellenic Film Academy Awards in category Best Cinematography. The film also won accolades in Mumbai International Film Festival^[1] and Seville European Film Festival.^[2] The film is shot in the places of Epirus and Thessaly.

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In 1654 in Greece under Ottoman rule, a solitary janissary collapses from his wounds outside an isolated Orthodox 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.^[3]^[4]

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隴山隴西郡

spiritual health

Black Field (2009 Greek film)

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