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Director
  
Nikos Koundouros

Duration
  

Music director
  
Giannis Markopoulos

Country
  
Greece

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, romance

Running time
  
1h 28m

Language
  
Greek

Cleopatra Rota looking fierce with short hair in a poster of the 1963 film "Young Aphrodites"

Writer
  
Kostas Sfikas
,
Vassilis Vassilikos

Release date
  
1963

Initial DVD release
  
December 14, 2001 (Greece)

Cast
  
Eleni Prokopiou
(Arta),
Takis Emmanuel
(Tsakalos),
Kleopatra Rota
(Chloe),
Vangelis Ioannidis
(Skymnos)



Similar
  
Oi paranomoi, Phaedra (film), Zorba the Greek (film)

Young aphrodites


Young Aphrodites (Greek: Μικρές Αφροδίτες, translit. Mikres Afrodites) is an award-winning drama film of 1963 directed by Nikos Koundouros based on a script of Vassilis Vassilikos.

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Cleopatra Rota at the river and wearing a ripped cloth in a scene from the 1963 movie "Young Aphrodite"

Plot

Cleopatra Rota looking at a bird on the cage in a scene from the 1963 film "Young Aphrodites"

In 200 BC, a nomadic group of shepherds, in search of new pastures, leaves the mountains to settle close to a fishing village. The women of the village hide and the only ones to venture out are Arta, the fisherman's wife, and a twelve-year-old girl, Chloe.

Eleni Prokopiou talking to Takis Emmanuel in a scene from the 1963 film "Young Aphrodites"

Skymnos, a young shepherd, approaches Chloe who walks semi-naked around the rocks and the beach. Among the two children begins a tantalising game, which does not clearly end up with the couple having intercourse; as a sign of his affection, Skymnos catches a pelican for Chloe and mounts it on a gantry. On the other hand, although Arta initially rejects Tsakalos, she finally succumbs and the couple meets in a cave where Skymnos and Chloe can watch through a crack in the rock.

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When the shepherds decide to leave, Skymnos refuses to follow them. Lykas, a mute teenage shepherd, finds Chloe and rapes her. At first Chloe struggles, but then apparently gives in to the sensations her first sexual experience is exposing her to. When Skymnos witnesses this scene, he unties the dead pelican, throws its corpse into the sea and allows himself to be swept away.

Awards


  • Silver Bear for Best Director (Berlin Film Festival) - Nikos Koundouros
  • International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Prize
  • Thessaloniki Film Festival Award for Best Film and Best Director - Nikos Koundouros

    • Cleopatra Rota looking serious and naked with a boy in a fur coat standing between the rocks

    A girl and a young boy holding a bird in a scene from the 1963 film "Young Aphrodites"

    Cleopatra Rota sitting on a rock in the 1963 film "Young Aphrodites"

    Cleopatra Rota clothing herself with a net exposing her private parts in the 1963 film "Young Aphrodites"

    References

    Young Aphrodites Wikipedia
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    Young Aphrodites IMDb Young Aphrodites themoviedb.org