"Highway Productions presents in co-production with Greek Film Centre" "Lamisalia" "NOVA 2:35" "a film by Vardis Marinakis" "A nun is a constant battle with ones nature a relentless suppression of ones senses a cleansed body and an enlightened mind." "Medieval nuns vow" "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 is a Janissary." "What are you looking at?" "Help me." "Anthi!" "You go on ahead!" "Prepare the instruments." "Remember how it's done?" "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 is losing a lot of blood, Reverent Mother." "I need my assistant." "You'll manage just fine on your own, sister Pelagia." "I'm sure." "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't make noise!" "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't go!" "Untie me!" "Untie me!" "Do you speak Greek?" "You 're not from around here." "Where are you from?" "Who sent you here?" "Why did you come to our monastery?" "Don't you understand you must cooperate?" "Follow my instructions to the letter." "Look me in the eyes." "You found naked flesh confusing." "You found him repulsive because he's a man?" "You fear the Devil is inside him?" "If you do all i've taught you, the evil will leave you." "And don't forget... no one else knows your secret, only the Lord and i..." "Why don't you ever wash your robes with us?" "The girl is shy... she hasn't even grown a bosom yet..." "Stop talking about Anthi!" "Mind your own business!" "What's the matter with you, Areti?" "I'm wondering if what the say about the Turks is true." "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's wrong?" "Were you scared by what happened last night?" "Poor dear..." "A dog that barks never bites." "Don't you know that?" "He hasn't said a word all day." "What's that?" "Balsam oil?" "You made it for the Janissary?" "You go and put it on him." "Take it!" "Do my people know i'm here?" "I don't know." "Where's my horse?" "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't swim." "Then a second wave came... and brought her out to shore... 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's a deserter and there's a price on his head." "They say he's very dangerous." "They mustn't find him here." "Let's throw him out, chained and all!" "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't hurt you." "I just want to clean the wound." "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't be afraid." "I wont bite." "What's your name?" "Anthi..." "Why are you whispering?" "What?" "Nothing." "Tell me." "There's a great cypress tree outside." "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've never been here before?" "What's the matter with you?" "Come, dance with me." "A man from Genoa taught me this dance." "I'll lead, you'll follow." "Your hands are burning hot, Miss." "I feel nice." " You're breaking your vow?" " I'm not feeling well." "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're not taking the key again." "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'll have to give more." "This is all we can give." "What are these?" "What are you doing with these?" "Tell me." "Talk to me!" "Don't avoid me." "You and i are one and the same." "Come in!" "I've betrayed you, Reverend Mother." "You need not worry any more." "He'll be gone by the end of the day." "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't like boys." "Here!" "I didn't know..." "I didn't know." " I can't hear you!" " I didn't know." "Stop whispering." "Stop!" "Stop it!" " I can't." " Of course you can." "I can't." "Speak like a man." " I can't." " Speak like a man!" "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't get recruited and become a Janissary like me." "I want to come with you." "I will change." "You did good for the first time." "That's how i learned as well." "They threw me in the water when i didn't know how to swim." "Listen!" "Remember our first night in the forest?" "I remember." "It didn't mean anything." "No." "Because i don't want to." "Neither do i." "Now!" "Again!" "If you don't catch it, we won't eat today." "Where are you going?" "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'll have her." "Anthi!" "Take her!" "Take her to my quarters." "Hurry!" "How susceptible you are to the Devil's cunning ways!" "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'm carrying his child." "My child." "Leave this place..." "as quickly as you can." "I'm not going anywhere." "You're my best soldier." "I won't let you go to waste." "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'll never be able to go far away from me." "What i did..." "was for your own good." "You're like a child to me." "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's all lies." " Calm down" " I am a monster." " No, you're not."