Summaries

After 30 years of service, an honourable family man retires and falls in love with another woman. A deep instinct for life pushes them towards a passion like those of their youth.

After three long decades of impeccable service to the Water Company, the conscientious public servant and doting paterfamilias, Leonidas Chryssis, retires. With his pockets crammed with cash from his severance pay, Leonidas decides to tend to his needs, buys an expensive suede jacket, and off he goes to spend his vacation at his favourite summer destination, the Platystomo Spa, of course, without his supporting wife, Maro, and his teenage son, Apostolos. There, a chance encounter with Christina, the charming and refined spouse of his former colleague, Alekos, will set in motion a silent undercurrent of repressed emotions, as, more and more, Leonidas' shallow and unrealistic infatuation turns into something more profound. Now, the innocents must suffer, and Christina's home in cold, rainy Bern is so far away. Will Leonidas put everyone and everything at risk for something that resembles love?—Nick Riganas

Details

Keywords
  • color in title
  • family relationships
  • love
  • man
  • mature lovers
Genres
  • Drama
  • Romance
Release date Nov 23, 1997
Countries of origin Switzerland Greece Cyprus
Language German French Greek
Filming locations Platistomo, Phthiotis, Greece
Production companies Eurimages Greek Film Centre (GFC) Fama Film AG

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 40m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby SR
Aspect ratio 1.66 : 1

Synopsis

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