True Love (1932)

It is the third film in a row of the type that much later on was called fustanella Greek kilt following Gkolfo by Bachatoris 1914 and Astero by Gaziadis 1929 It is based on the successful theatrical play rhyming pastoral romance by Dimitrios Koromilas who draws his inspiration from a poem by Giannis Zalokostas I fell in love with a shepherdess The setting is Greece a rural country in the middle of the 19th century A landlord Mitros gives Kroustallo a golden cross as a gift to show her his tender feelings He doesnt know however that she is already in love with Liakos a destitute young shepherd to whom Mitros owes his life in the past he had saved him from drowning in the river The cross around the neck of the shepherdess causes fights between the two men while Mitros asks Kroustallos hand from her mother Mrs Stathaina who had been his childhood love