Sappho
2008 · Movie · 88 min. · Ukraine
Sappho is a provocative and passionate love story set in the 1920s - not to be watched with children or with parents. Millionaire's daughter Sappho Lovell arrives on the Greek island of Lesbos for her honeymoon with her artist husband Phil. There she meets Helene, the daughter of a Russian archaeologist, and she falls in love with her. As our three lovers live out a complex girl-boy-girl sexual triangle, Sappho also comes to believe that she is the reincarnation of the ancient poetess Sappho - that Sappho who first put the "lesbian" in Lesbos. However, our modern Sappho does realize how the ancient Sappho's legend ends... Inspired by the poems of Sappho.
Direction Robert Crombie
Cast Avalon Barrie · Todd Soley · Lyudmila Shiryaeva · Bogdan Stupka · Elissaios Vlachos · Vassilis Psihoyiopoulos · Oksana Osipova · Sergey Kosenko · Anatoly Semenov
Soundtrack Maro Theodorakis
Screenplay Robert Crombie
Cinematography Bagir Rafiyev
Original title Sappho
3.8
139 votes (FilmAffinity)
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