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• Lumiere
• Admissions in 2 European countries
• Cineuropa
• 1 article

Year of production : 2016

Director(s) : Tassos BOULMETIS
Writer(s) : Tassos BOULMETIS
Cast : Yiannis NIARROS, Themis PANOU, Maria KALLIMANI, Taxiarhis HANOS

Producer(s) : Tassos BOULMETIS (Onion Films)

In the early 1970s, with Greece under the
rule of a military junta, pre-teen Stavros
discovers a strange accompaniment to
the awakening of eros: he subverts the
meanings of classical myths, creating
strange physical symptoms in those
around him. Stavros’ conservative
parents, perplexed and flustered, take him
from specialist to specialist. Diagnoses
vary, until a fortune-teller deems that the
boy is victim of a rare, ancient disease,
which exhibits himself when he is in love.
After the collapse of the junta, as Stavros
meets the toils of love and politics in
university, the influence of his strange
affliction extends, from his immediate
environment into the political arena...