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Follow the intertwined lives of a mail order bride and a nostalgic professor as they navigate love, loss, and rediscovery in two captivating tales of romance and self-discovery set in the early 20th century.
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Brides (Οι Νύφες)(2004) • Director: Pantelis Voulgaris • Starring: Victoria Haralabidou, Damien Lewis • Executive producer: Martin Scorsese • Music: Stamatis Spanoudakis In 1922, a mail order bride, the second from the same poor Greek family bound for the same groom in Chicago, meets aboard the ship King Alexander an American photographer who is on his way home to a failed marriage. Will the bride fail her family back home and follow her heart?
A Touch of Spice (Πολίτικη Κουζίνα) (2003) • Director: Tassos Boulmetis • Starring: George Corraface, Ieroklis Michailides, Başak Köklükaya • Music: Evanthia Reboutsika Fanis, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics, recalls his childhood memories from Constantinople, which he left at the age of 7, after the Pogrom that reduced the greek community from 135.000 to 7.000 people. His grandfather and mentor, an owner of a grocery that specialized in spices and a culinary philosopher, remained behind together with his childhood love Saime.When Fanis returns to Constantinople after 3 decades to visit his near death grandpa, he realizes that despite what he taught him, he had forgotten to put a little bit of spice in his own life...
Jorge Luis Borges-A key in Salonica Abarbanel, Farías or Pinedo, Persecuted and driven out of Spain By the unholy Inquisition, still retain The key to a certain dark house in Toledo. All liberated now from hope and fear, They look at it in the last light of day: Its bronze speaks of the past, the far away, Old fires and quiet suffering year by year. Now that its door is fragments, it has thinned To a cipher for the Diaspora, for the wind, Like to that other key of the Second Temple, Which someone flung up when the Roman legion Fell on the Jews to make them an example, And which a hand reached down for out of heaven.
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