Movie Details
Original Language:English
The Martlets Tale
The locale resembles Rhodes and the major protagonist is a youth Sotiris who rejects the selfcentered avarice of his relatives all members of a wealthy family who are dominated by Orsetta their vindictive matriarch Orsettas power lies in her oftenrepeated reminder that she alone knows the whereabouts of a secret treasure that is hidden on the island The tensions involved with this atmosphere causes Sotiris to run away to a large city where he loses himself in an international dropout society The rich decadence of this Mediterranean port almost destroys the boy despite the blandishments of a seductive girl already corrupted by the hashishhaze of life When Sotiris flees back to his familys island he discovers that Orsetta has died but not without revealing that Sotiris also knows the secret of the treasure Gradually the relatives turn toward the boy with the same repressed hostilities they had displayed toward the old woman
DirectorJohn Crowther
