A gruff highlander leaves his village and heads to the town and harbor where he will embark for Australia. We follow his descent to the sea through three stories. At first, he works with a blacksmith he knows, but his erotic attraction to the pure girlfriend of his friend puts him to flight. Later on, he meets a sensual tomboy who symbolizes all the enchantment of wild nature, and her destiny is to end up in a brothel. Finally, at the harbor of Piraeus, where he stays in the humble house of a couple who are separating, he meets a crestfallen woman, who is weary from poverty and abandonment, and together they take the ship of voluntary exile. —IMDb
Alexis Damianos doesn’t need introductions. His three films traverse nearly forty years and have indelibly marked new Greek cinema. His work begins in 1966 with Until the ship sails and with this film, unfolds the story of modern Greek cinema. 1971 was the year of Evdokia, the best, according to many, Greek film of all time. Finally in 1995, Damianos released Eniochos- the charioteer the most awaited comeback of Greek cinema. Harsh poetics, social infiltration, historical speculation centered on man, characterize the singular work of 83 year-old Alexis Damianos. —Thessaloniki International Film Festival
A three fold movie which its axis is the journey a peasant makes from his homeland to Peiraias (main port of Greece) so as to embark on a ship to migrate to Australia. The movie depicts realistically… read review