THE LOVERS FROM AXOS

(ΟΙ ΕΡΑΣΤΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΞΟΥ)

Filmmaker Nicos Ligouris happened upon the subject of his documentary by chance. Travelling in the mountains of Crete, he met 73 year-old Jorgos who guided him through a Byzantine chapel on Mount Ida. Jorgos also offered to show him something more beautiful: his 69 year-old wife, Maria, working at her loom.

Ligouris immortalises the love that binds Jorgos and Maria; a love that has deepened over 55 years. But something clouds their happiness: Jorgos is ill and could die any minute.

"I thought to myself that I could not, and did, not want to explain the secret of their love. But I could chronicle it, steal individual moments in their lives, which at first seem unspectacular, but on closer inspection are magical." Filmmaker Nicos Ligouris