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Highway Productions presents

in co-production with Greek Film Centre

Lamisalia

NOVA

2??35

a film by Vardis Marinakis

A relentless suppression of one

A cleansed body and an enlightened mind.

Medieval nun

A Janissary is a Turkish soldier born a Christian...

Torn from his family as a youth and forced...

to serve in the Ottoman army for the rest of his life.

Black Field (Mavro Livadi)

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.

1654 Ottoman Empire Greece

He

What are you looking at? Help me.

Anthi!

You go on ahead!

Prepare the instruments.

Remember how it

Thank you, sisters. You may go.

Have you ever seen a man?

You may never get another chance, Anthi.

You may look, now...

I've covered him up.

Good.

Anthi, get out of here right now!

He

I need my assistant.

You

Please leave the room, Anthi!

Do not reject the torrent of my tears, Virgin Mary,

For you gave birth to Christ...

Who wipes away the tears from our eyes.

Fill my heart, Virgin Mary, with gladness,

For you are she who received all the fullness of joy,

And made all sorrow of sinfulness vanish.

Do not reject the torrent of my tears, Virgin Mary,

For you gave birth to Christ who wipes the tears from our eyes.

Don

Come in!

I want you to stay with him for a few hours.

Do you want him to die?

When you go, leave the key under my door and be very careful.

Alright?

If anything goes wrong, wake me up.

Do not reject the torrent of my tears, Virgin Mary,

For you gave birth to Christ...

Who wipes away the tears from our eyes.

Fill my heart, Virgin Mary, with gladness,

For you are she who received all the fullness of joy,

And made all sorrow of sinfulness vanish

A haven and protection you become, O Virgin...

for those who flee to you,

An unshaken wall, a shelter and a place of retreat and rejoicing.

Illuminate with the radiance of your lights, Virgin Mary,

all those who piously call you the Mother of God,

and banish away all darkness of ignorance.

Receive supplication from us wretches...

Take the chains off!

Take the chains off!

Don

Untie me!

Untie me!

Do you speak Greek?

You

Where are you from?

Who sent you here?

Why did you come to our monastery?

Don

Follow my instructions to the letter.

Look me in the eyes.

You found naked flesh confusing.

You found him repulsive because he

You fear the Devil is inside him?

If you do all I've taught you, the evil will leave you.

And don

no one else knows your secret,

only the Lord and I...

Why don

The girl is shy... she hasn

Stop talking about Anthi!

Mind your own business!

What

I

Reverent Mother has forbidden us to talk about them.

What do they say? Tell us!

They say that Janissaries bring along with them into battle...

young boys dressed as girls.

They call these boys "the tender ones".

What

Were you scared by what happened last night?

Poor dear...

A dog that barks never bites. Don't you know that?

He hasn

What

Balsam oil?

You made it for the Janissary?

You go and put it on him.

Take it!

Do my people know I

I don

Where

It died. We burnt it.

I want you to help me escape.

My life is in danger.

I am a fruitless tree, Lord,

and of my guilt I bear no fruit at all...,

And I wait to be cut down with fear...

and I quail before the unsleeping fire.

And so I implore you, before that constraint,

turn back to me and save me.

We lingered at the seashore...

to cool our burning feet.

The sea was calm, glorious...

Suddenly a wave rose and pulled Areti in.

I lost sight of her.

Then I saw her floating in the deep waters,

even though she can

Set her on the sand, safe and sound.

And the sea was calm again.

And the sky cleared.

Areti, go to your cell and rest.

And you, Dorothea, come with me.

I bring you bad news.

He

They say he

They mustn

Let

We must hand him over secretly...

to the Turks.

The reward will help the convent and many families.

That will be considered treason, Reverend Mother.

I won

Like waves of the sea, my iniquities assail me...

Like a skiff on the ocean, I am alone and storm-tossed...

by many offences...

But guide me, Lord, to a fair haven through repentance...

and save me. I am a fruitless tree, Lord,

And of my guilt I bear no fruit at all...

Come closer so I can hear you.

Don

What

Anthi...

Why are you whispering?

What?

Nothing.

Tell me.

There

One day many years ago it bowed down before a nun.

And she tied her handkerchief on top of the tree.

If you look closely, you can still see it blowing in the wind.

Anthi?

It was my favourite dress! Feel it.

You

What

Come, dance with me.

A man from Genoa taught me this dance.

I

Your hands are burning hot, Miss.

I feel nice.

-You

Last night when I entered his cell, he called me Anthi.

I can still smell him on me.

Smell!

He made me his, Anthi, do you understand?

You

But guide me, Lord, to a fair haven through repentance...

and save me. I am a fruitless tree, Lord,

and of my guilt I bear no fruit at all...,

And I wait to be cut down with fear...

and I quail before the unsleeping fire.

And so I implore you, before that constraint,

turn back to me and save me.

If you want your man back, you

This is all we can give.

What are these? What are you doing with these?

Tell me.

Talk to me!

Don

You and I are one and the same.

Come in!

I

You need not worry any more.

He

Now come with me.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.

Lord Jesus Christ...

Stop following me.

I don

Here!

I didn

-I can

Stop whispering. Stop! Stop it!

-I can

I can

Speak like a man.

-I can

Let me go!

Speak like a man! Like a man!

They hid you in the convent when you were a little boy...

so that you don

I want to come with you. I will change.

You did good for the first time.

That

They threw me in the water when I didn

Listen!

Remember our first night in the forest?

I remember.

It didn

No.

Because I don

Neither do I.

Now! Again!

If you don

Where are you going?

Watch carefully.

In the eyes!

Is this the young nun?

Come on.

We brought the child back. Get your Superior.

As agreed.

Give me the money back and you

Anthi!

Take her!

Take her to my quarters. Hurry!

How susceptible you are to the Devil

We must help Anthi.

Not for one moment should she feel...

that she is different from us.

Get the tent ready. Hurry!

Come on! Come on!

Feel here...

I

My child.

Leave this place... as quickly as you can.

I

You

I won

When they brought you from Greece,

you were nothing but a lazy village boy,

Remember when I brought you into battles with me?

Untie him.

Get out of here! Go!

You

What I did... was for your own good.

You

Come quickly, Reverend Mother.

Something terrible has happened!

Sister Areti... has passed away.

She hanged herself in her cell.

Anthi brought the demon in our convent.

We must throw her out, sisters.

What we should do, sisters, is pray all night...

for the soul of Sister Areti.

I believe in one God, Father Almighty,

maker of heaven and earth,

and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ,

The only-begotten of the Father before all ages,

light of light, true God of true God,

begotten, not made, of one essence with the Father,

By whom all things were made.

Who for us men and for our salvation came down...

from heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Ghost...

and the Virgin Mary and became man.

Who ascended into heaven...

and sits on the right hand of the Father.

Who will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.

And of his kingdom there will be no end.

And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and giver of life,

Who proceeds from the Father...

Who with the Father and the Son together...

is worshipped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets.

And in one holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church...

I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins.

And I await the resurrection of the dead...

-It

-I am a monster. -No, you