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Nikos Papadimitriou. Here beside me its Michalis Kouris.

Eleni Petraki.

Do you believe the things they say about us?

Petro, people say that also murderers came with them.

Makridakis, makes up these stories, to make people panic.

- They're already dead, can't you see? - You are greatly mistaken.

Exhausted maybe. But dead, no.

Is it true that they'll drink all of our water and leave us with nothing?

- Want me to bring you anything? - Some water.

What happened to your neck?

- Foreigners, you are not Greek! - We shall through you into the sea!

Order! Stop! Shame on you.

Order! Shame on you!

Its better to work together, than kill ourselves.

All of us are travellers.

On the same boat!

- Something wrong? - Don't know.

How do you call this in Athens?

Is that how you solve your differences?

Come down Niko, Theodore. Stop you guys!

As soon as the Atheneans got well

they started working very hard.

Within some months, Spinalonga became a totally new place.

ΑΣΤΗΡ! Read and inform yourselves!

ΑΣΤΗΡ, final issue!

ΑΣΤΗΡ!

- Goodmorning. - Goodmorning.

- How is your father? - He is fine.

ΑΣΤΗΡ! Read and inform yourselves!

- Goodmorning, Stavro. - Here take one.

Goodmorning, Stavro. Does it say anything good today?

I'll see you at the coffee house. I'll tell you.

ΑΣΤΗΡ! Hey! Human here!

Nice label.

Read and inform yourself!

Get lost.

- What time should I pass by? - There's always tomorrow, Stavro.

I'm very busy today.

- The break is over, gather up... - Mrs Christina.

Inside the class. Get inside. Inside.

- How are you, Panagioti? - Fine.

Here's another one.

I made an offering to God so that Papadimitriou sees not one vote (in rhyme)

- I'll come and find you later. - Fine.

ΑΣΤΗΡ!

ΑΣΤΗΡ! Read, priest-Kazakos, to find out about the news!

Will they come to the church across?

- How are you, Kyriako? - Here, I fix these.

- Are you making repairs? Let them last forever. - God bless you.

ΑΣΤΗΡ! Nikoli? Catch.

- Look! - Watch it!

- President... - Thank you, my boy.

One for you too, boss.

He calls me boss?

Since when do I have a title?

Eeeeh, the title is on its way.

- What president? What do you mean? - Well... To be honest...

you've done many things for the place. You see all of them how joyfully they work?

- They're doing it for you. - Yes, but who started it all?

That’s not important!

All I know is, that from the moment you came here, the island has been transformed.

And all I know is that there are many more that need to be done.

You're right. That’s why I want you to take my place.

To make everything true. Because only you can. No one else.

Yes, isn't it a pity? Such few people stay on the island.

Why shouldn't illiterate women vote too?

That would be very nice my girl, so that we too could make a difference.

That’s how it always has been, Mrs teacher, will it change now?

Yes, but why do illeteral men vote then?

- Eeeeh? Don't we have a soul too? - Bless your words.

You say it so nice and since you're a teacher too, why don't you go and ask of them?

Mother Mary. What are these things you're talking about.

- Goodmorning, goodmorning. - Goodmorning.

Here.

Welcome.

- What would I do without you? - Easy.

- You would have found someone else. - Take it back. Mmm!

I want us to get married... and have a family.

- Like normal people. - Kalliopi...

here its different. What do you want, to have a child and then have it taken from us?

Ha?

Father...

Anna has the disease!

What are you staring at? Bring get me to eat.

Does this relieve you?

She doesn't have the bad thing does she?

Silence my child, silence.

I don't want them to take my little sister.

Why would they take her?

What are these red spots in her face?

The doctor will tell us.

No he should not. They will pass on their own.

What are you doing in the middle of the night in this rain? You wanna get a pneumonia?

I went to check if the tanks of water got full.

Elpida... they're full till the top. God is great! Great.

I'll see how great he is when you get sick. Let me get you a blanket.

So muck water... I've never seen, my Elpida.

I hope you won't run for president again.

Its time someone else takes responsibility.

Silence! The same again? I told you I won't!

I ask because no one can be sure with you.

You have it inside of you and it doesn't let you give up.

Aaa... but my body does!

Ahh!

- What are these marks aunt? - I don't know my Maria...

It could be something else, right aunt Savina?

Yes.

- Yes it could be chicken pox. - Chicken pox? What is that?

- My Anna how are you feeling? - I'm in pain.

- Where? - Everywhere. Ahhh..

That’s because of the fever.

Giorgi, you have to get the doctor.

Show me a budget and lets move forward.

I have here, an accusation of Christina Kroustallaki, towards Mrs Petraki.

She allegates, that Eleni wants to take her position at school.

- And she's asking of us to set about the matter. - This is absolutely unthinkable.

That woman is trying spread dispute,

And you should stop her.

But its true that Kroustallaki is beating up the children, makes them all bruised up.

And she forces children to hit one another.

That's why Eleni removed little Dimitri from class.

The other day I spoke with Foti, Lambro's little boy.

And from what I understood, this year she teaches the same as the previous year.

And you believed him?

Christina is teaching our children for so many years on this island,

and we, instead of being grateful, we judge her!

And as for the beating you said, that’s not that bad for the kids in the long run, ha?

Beating came out of heaven.

Excuse me president. I didn't know you were all gathered here.

- I better go, come back later. - No, no, no. Come Mrs Petraki, come in.

What would you like?

I'd like to make a request... but I don't know if the time is right.

- The... speak, what request? - It is about the elections. I wanted to ask...

starting this year... to give the right of vote to the illiterate women too.

If someone asks about your sister at school tell them she has the chicken pox.

Is that what she has? Or leprosy?

Don't ever say this word again, you hear? Never!

Now go to school. You'll be late for class.

Our Anna may have leprosy. You're the only one that knows. Not a word to anyone.

Maria, maria.

How is your sister?

- A bit better. - Have you brought a doctor?

Aunt Savina said she has chicken pox.

I want you to tell your father to come and visit me tomorrow.

Why what did I do?

- You won't forget? - No.

I hurt father.

Deep inside me I hurt very much.

I'm thinking of what awaits me, and I shiver from fear.

I can't part with my children father.

What would I do without them.

I can't continue living in a lie either.

Only to the thought that because of me they might get sick, i go crazy.

Eugenia, only God has the right to take away our lives.

Your behaviour is shellfish and dangerous for your fellow people.

To be forgiven...

you must tell your people and depart for Spinalonga.

Finally! Face to face.

- What do you mean? - You know very well, what I mean.

Come in.

I see, your relations with the president's wife has helped you in many ways.

- Meaning? - Come on.

House like that not even Kontomaris has.

- I'm glad you like it. Sit. - I didn't come to sit.

You know, the counsil asked to inspect the curriculum I teach.

And by that I presume, they asked the same of you too.

- Indeed. - I wonder...

where do you find so much free time to teach.

Thank God, this is the only thing we have plenty on this island.

Free time.

Only that you, spend your free time digging my grave.

I don't think you need any help for that. You manage to do that on your own very well.

Petraki....

- You don't seem to know me very well. - And I don't intend to get to know you either!

If I believe that someone tries to harm me,

- I'm capable of everything! - Meaning?

Everything!

- She said you should see her to tomorrow. - Didn't she say what she wants?

- No. But I know. - What do you know?

She may be thinking that Anna has the bad thing.

- How do you know? - The children talk about it,

because they saw Anna's red spots yesterday.

"Heeeee goodtimes!

Ladies, gentlemen and beloved children, good evening all the way!

Candidate for the elections, we'll dance our feet off!"

"Are the Greek citizens, whether they live here on the island,"

or live away in Athens or in any other place.

What I want to tell you is that together with us, Karagiozis is also a candidate.

That hunchback man, which Kroustallaki is also afraid of.

Aaaa welcome Mr Makridakis, welcome the candidate, welcome.

- Its you, that’s votes for Papadimitriou? - What can we do, I'm a bit democratic!

I'll put you on an ice column, same as our leader does.

Wait, easy... easy!

At Kontromanis's yard they dug a hole.

To bury Makridakis without priest nor deacon.

And along, also Kroustallaki and Spyros Gazakis.

Don't hit me damn you...

What happened to you?

He sat right next to Kontomaris.

If you become president afterall I'm gonna make her suck a joke

that she will remember the rest of her life!

If Papadimitriou is elected, then we're gonna have a problem.

Shall I give it to you? How will they call me then, Elpida Kontomari?

Noway!

"How are you called, what's your name?"

They are in such a bad condition that whatever you promise them they will believe.

In the name of God Kroustallaki.

If I only had half of your brains I would run for priminister!

"You're always very naught and make a mess."

"I am a young woman,

and I'll smoke and whistle."

"And vote too my Aglaia!"

"- Ah Mrs Petraki... - That’s how it is!"

"I was the first to make women vote in the brotherhood."

"- At last! We too have value! - Come, lets go to the brotherhood together."

"I believe we have much to offer..."

Can you come to the side, I want to talk to you...

What do you want?

"What are you looking at?"

- I'm thinking of becoming a heart friend of yours. - What are you talking about...

- A favour... - Hmmmm?

We also ask of favours Mrs teacher?

What is it?

They brought me a big bottle of wine from Plaka, that I don't need, do you want it?

"- Hello! - Hey the big ears..."

the manger was't enough."

- Eugenia, Eugenia! - Good morning, Hariklia.

- Good morning Giorgi, How is little Anna? - She's better, thank you!

She has no fever today, but I kept her at home just in case.

- Eugenia hasn't opened yet? - Eh she must be busy somewhere... Want bread?

No, I'm going to school, the teacher asked of me.

- Why, does she have any complains about the girls? - How should I know?

You want me to keep the little one company until you return?

Eee no, don't bother, I won't be long.

It's not a bother Giorgi, its my joy! Like I have anything else to do...

Better no, I don't want you to catch anything...

- Whatever you prefer. - Good morning!

- Good morning! - Good morning Giorgi.

How is the girl Giorgi?

At the summer of 1823, Pasha of Skodra, called Moustais,

received the order to subdue the revolted western Greece.

On his way down, he was planning to pass from Agrafa mountain.

Five minutes break kids.

- Good morning Mrs Giorgi. - Good morning.

- How is Annio? - A, she's better thank God!

Next week I think she will be coming back to school.

That’s what I wanted to talk to you about. Maria told me that no doctor has examined Anna yet.

- No... the doctor didn't see her but... - Mr Giorgi, you know better than me

that everyone here live with the fear of the disease.

And all the time they put the worst in their mind.

What are you saying Mrs teacher, that my child gas leprosy?

I don't say anything, I speak of the fear of the other parents...

Until then, please keep both of them at home

Understand me!

Once more!

Come, play!

Foti, your mother tummy hurts.

Go to Lapaki's and tell them to give you a pain killer.

- Once more! - Come on go, go!

OK I'm going. You wait for me, I'm coming.

Do you play?

Come! Drink!

You mean, If you see someone swimming,

You'll catch him and put him to jail?

But that's why I'm here, so than no one escapes the island!

But you...

I won't touch, you're a good boy.

And if you see someone swimming, how can you tell if he escaped or not?

Maybe he swims so far into the sea because he likes it...

I know, I smell these things from afar!

Have you ever seen anyone?

I have someone in mind but, I'm not sure yet.

What's his name?

Ah, I can't tell you... these are professional secrets.

You have a gun too?

Ofcourse.

May I see it?

- Nice! - Here take it...

- Touch it. Come on take it. - That’s OK I saw it.

The guardian's job, have you studied it?

What do you think?

I think yes, how else would you know all these stuff.

Right. So tell me...

- What do you wanna be when you grow up? - A teacher like Mrs Eleni.

Can I tell you a secret?

But you'll tell no one.

Whoever doesn't go to Kroustallaki's class, may not become a teacher.

And what may happen?

Nothing.

- What are you hiding behind your back? - Nothing.

- Get off the table. - No.

Go inside now!

No.

What are you doing here?

What business do you have with the boy?

- Get out of my house you trump. - Let the knife down Mrs.

And mind your words. So that no one finds you in a ditch, understood?

Ha!

Hello Pavli.

Hello doctor.

Annio can I tell you a joke?

- Must be the Xania's pimple (slang)... - No.

Its nothing. Its a mosquito bite.

- Leishmaniasis. - Eh, what is that, is it serious?

Its nothing, skin disease. Hania's pimple (slang).

Oh! You shouldn't hang out with people from Hania much.

Now everyone hug.

- So doctor, its nothing serious right? - Don't even think about it.

I've seen many cases like that. Leprosy has different clinical symptoms.

I'll pass by tomorrow to give her an injection. I'll also give you this powder,

you should wet it a it and make it like a cream. Spread it on a napkin.

and put it on your forehead once or twice a day,

in one-two weeks it will pass, and the girl will be fine.

I owe you a big favour doctor.

What a bad situation. How can you live under these conditions in here?

How can you stand this?

Where is the new clinic's wing your president promised?

Only words, begging and letters to Athens, without replies.

But here we need drastic measures.

We...

will force the government to fund the new wing immediately.

And they should raise our allowance.

We will ask for more nurses,

and we will demand to more doctors to be sent to us. Permanent doctors.

Sear friends, I believe you entered the wrong door.

Its a hospital here and not a stage for electoral propagandas.

In other words, people do not get healed. Please let us

- do our jobs. - Doctor,

you cannot forbid us to enter the hospital.

Ofcourse I can, I said. In this place, I'm in charge.

We work, we don't tell lies. Lies only in the coffee shops.

Don't laugh. Don't laugh at all. You also do the same.

Trying to fool me with lies.

Will I only have bread to eat? Where are the dolmas?

Come wife and the doctor is complaining.

Ah, really? What kind of complains do you have doctor?

One minute, let me try first and I'll tell you My Mrs Savina...

I never tasted dolmas like that, not even by my mother.

Bless you doctor.

- Cheers. - Cheers doctor.

To our Eleni. Every night I pray to God to have her well.

You don't know how much we miss her.

- She's a great woman. - You don't say,

I have her like a sister. Her children grow up with mine.

- How is Anna? - Very well, very well.

Ah, wait I'll get you some vine leafs.

- Hello doctor. Hello Pavli. - Hello Vasili.

- Vasili how are you? - OK lets say.

- My wife has a problem. - What happened to her?

With her waist. Long time now.

Savina's vine leafs.

Lapakis will come to take a look at you in a while, go wash.

- Who? - Lapakis.

- Lapakis who? - The doctor.

I met him at Savina's, told him about your waist and he said he'll come to see you.

- When? - In a little while.

Go tell him not to.

- What? - Tell him not to come, I don't want him.

- Why don't you want him? - I don't want him I tell you.

He's from the island, he is for the lepers. I don't want him.

- I asked of him to come, and he will. - Eh, then I'll leave.

- You'll stay here. - Let me go.

You got to me first doctor, I was coming to find you.

- Why what happened? - Eugenia isn't here.

- She'll be back soon. - Its OK I'll sit and wait for her.

Athena, Lefteri, how are you? Are you OK?

Listen doctor... let us waste no more of your time.

Go to your business, and when you come again, you come and see her.

We'll be here. And forgive me for the trouble.

I'm doing my job.

- Have a nice trip. - Bless you.

Mom?

Your mother is coming. Go inside and silence.

Papadimitriou came from Athens and and he behaves like a smartypants.

If he was so competent and so smart, why didn't he do these things there?

Why did they cast him away?

When we first came here

we were treated by the majority of the island

as like criminals and murderers. But from what you saw

we carry these titles from Ag.Barbara because we never ceased

- to fight for that which is called life. - I don't want any plans,

I don't want to fix the place, I want to change it, I want us to leave,

- not the place to change! - Because he's not scared of death.

Because we gamble with death every day, all of us,

but by claiming more life.

And remember my fellow villagers, here is Crete, and we'll elect a president from Psiloriti!

That should be our common goal.

As all of us know in ancient Greece, there was no word for civilisation,

there was only a word for culture.

With flowers and signs and two or three hands of white painting...

Speak Stavro.

I'm not interested neither about power nor anything of the kind.

I want us, to mind the cleanness of the island.

- At least for two years! - That's it!

We should build a short wall, for those who have sight difficulties to find their way.

- All together with Makridakis! - He should have a bit more good time.

How long is it been since you saw your children and wifes?

... more that we'll ever know.

Eeee, what do they know? They are foreigners.

"If you vote for Makridakis you'll be eating with a golden spoon..."

"you'll all have everything you ever wanted..."

"Makridaaakiiiiis...."

"Makridaaakiiiiis all the way!"

Where are you, wake up!

We don't need foreigners, to find solutions for us

Makridakis! Makridakis!

Today is a big day for all of us.

We vote for our new president.

Him, that from now on will stand for our interests.

We don't want to prolong the date of our death.

We want to make the quality of our lives better.

So your vote is important.

That's why I'm asking you, to vote wittingly...

unaffected by fat words and promises.

Vote for Makridakis, he's the more competent one...

- Papadimitriou is a foreigner. - Hey! What you're doing is wrong.

Athena will now hand each one of you two voting papers...

and will help you go on with the voting.

Please some quiet. Please.

Shhhhhh.

The counting of the votes is complete.

As the medical officer of the prefecture, I observed the whole procedure and found it in all legit.

Now, Mr president, will announce the results.

So, here are the results of the voting.

Invalid and abstinence ones...

48 votes.

Makridakis Theodore... 56 votes.

Papadimitriou Nikolaos...

125 votes.

Quiet! Calm down!

Starting today, starting today...

Nikos Papadimitriou, is our new president!

Bravo Niko!

Speech! Speech!

Welcome president!

Citizens of Spinalonga....

thank you so much, for the honor you do me

and I hope I'll be worthy, of the trust you've shown me.

Bravo Niko!

Petros Kontomaris...

with the militancy that stamps him, has achieved many things on our island already.

I know there are much more that need to be done...

that's why I will never stop

to put pressure on the government and able ministries until they become reality.

Bravo!

And let us not forget... that one thing binds us all...

and that is our sickness!

No matter how much we argue, we can't make it without one another.

That's why, whatever life we have left...

let's try to make it as better as possible.

Bravo!

That...

that is the only common goal we must have.

For Spinalonga!

For the lives of all of us!

- For Spinalonga! - For Spinalonga!

- Spinalonga! - Spinalonga!

Father, why aren't you telling us where mom is? She's gone so many days, isn't she coming back?

Shut up, leave me alone.

And where is she now?

She hides in the monastery.

Poor woman!

I'll take her to my house until we deside what to do.

- Giorgi, where should I take this? - Dimitri, take it to my house!

OK.

How are you?

Fine.

- The girls? - The girls are fine.

They would go to paint Savina's eggs red.

She quilted it with her own hands.

Have a nice Easter, my Lenio.

Happy holidays, dear.

"Vasili,

when you find this letter I will already be to a place where there's no return.

Forgive me that I couldn't find the courage to tell you the truth.

But I couldn't bare to part with you.

I have leprosy.

For months now I carry it on me.

I don;t want to keep putting your life in danger.

I'm leaving.

Tomorrow morning Giorgis will take me to Spinalonga.

I want you to live.

And remember me with love.

Because I loved you a lot.

and always will.

Eugenia"

Dad when is mom coming?

What is this letter?

"Come and receive light,

from the light that never darkens,

and praise Christ,

the One that has risen from the dead."

"Christ has risen from the dead"

"defeated death..."

"And to all people..."

...granted life."

"Christ has risen! Truly risen!"