House on the Rocks

House on the Rocks

1974 · 97 min · ★ 3.9 · Drama, Romance

Elena, the wife of a very rich man, spends the summer on an island in the Aegean Sea, doing archaeological research. One day her son comes to visit her son from her first marriage. The sea, the sun, the shepherds with ancient half-lingual rites, a handsome youth, not yet an old woman - no one remembered what happened in Ancient Greece ...

Directed by George Zervoulakos · Written by George Zervoulakos

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