Love Affairs and Heartbreaks

Directed by Georgios Filis

With Papes Filipides, Pitsa Antoniades, Elli Kiriakidou and Dimitra Dimitriadou

This first film of Cyprus' first director, Giorgios Filis, depicts music and dance customs in the form and style of a folk opera, with traditional Cypriot dances and songs. The film consists of a folkloric inventory based on the folk culture of Cyprus, as well as on similar ritual happenings. The narration and dialogue are entirely in the Cypriot dialect and are characterized by a rhetorical and poetic mood.