The Rape of Aphrodite (1984)

9.0/10 150 min Drama

Overview

The story of the Cyprus' turbulent recent history using the device of a desperate man, Evagoras (Costas Timvios), who returns to the island after years of absence to look for his wife and son. His family disappeared while they were visiting his native village on Cyprus, just when the Turkish army invaded (1974). As Evagoras goes out on his search each day with a friendly taxi driver, flashbacks illustrate the recent history of the Greek Cypriots, and the normally quiet Evagoras heads closer and closer to a militant stance.

Cast

Costas Tymvios

Evagoras

Thalia Argyriou

Afroditi

Εlias Aletras

Themistocles

Spyros Stavrinidis

Onisilos

Liana Halkia

Michalis Moustakas

Recommendations

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
The Poker House
Landscape in the Mist
The Visit
Cloak and Dagger
Return
Outrage
The Safety of Objects
Voyage to Cythera
The Girl in the Book
The Last Bus
The River
Five Fingers
Scandalous Sex
Emmanuelle: Queen of Sados
Hounddog
All Day and a Night
The Road Dance
The Pumpkin Eater
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds