Sappho (2008)

Sappho, a newly wed American wife, with her husband on the Greek island Lesbos, goes through the pain of unrequited love to a young woman, very much like the namesake poet in ancient times.

Director:

Robert Crombie

Writer:

Robert Crombie

Stars:

Avalon Barrie, Todd Soley, Lyudmila Shiryaeva

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Cast

Cast overview:
Avalon Barrie	...	Sappho Lovell
Todd Soley	...	Phil Lovell
Lyudmila Shiryaeva	...	Helene Orlov
Bogdan Stupka	...	Professor Orlov
Elissaios Vlachos	...	Dionisios
Vassilis Psychogiopoulos	...	Barber
Oksana Osipova	...	Maria
Sergey Kosenko	...	Christos
Anatoliy Semenov	...	Tattoo-Artist
Bakhtiyar Aliev	...	Island Resident
Seit-Khalil Ametov	...	Island Resident
Vasily Andrus	...	Island Resident
Diana Asonova	...	Island Resident

Storyline

"And? What comes next?" "It's lost. We'll never know." "Perhaps we should decide for ourselves" 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

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Plot Keywords:

greek island | island | 1920s | reincarnation | artist | 

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Taglines:

Love is what is love

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

Ukraine

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 March 2008 (Ukraine)

Also Known As:

Summer Lover

Filming Locations:

Crimea, Ukraine

Box Office

Budget:

$1,950,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Crombie Film, Yalta-Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Sappho: You can marry Helene. You can have her if you like.
Phil: I'm not a Turk. I can't have two wives. It's in the rules.
Sappho: Don't be so boring, Phil. There are no rules in this game. There's nothing we can imagine that's not allowed. What's love is love.
Phil: Well, what's loyalty is that too. Don't you care if I sleep with other women now?
Sappho: You can sleep with other boys too if you like.
[to Helene]
Sappho: Will you marry my husband?
Helene: Yes.
Sappho: Then it's perfect. It's all that simple. We can all be married to one another.

User Reviews

Terrible.

Horrible film. I would not recommend this to anyone. While a film is being developed its creators should be asking themselves "So what? Who cares?" and they should be able to answer that question in regards to their movie. At the end of this I felt myself asking "So what? Who cares?" Which is incredibly bad.

This film suffers from terrible acting, directing and writing, and its seemingly only redeeming qualities are it locations and occasionally good cinematography.

Honestly, do not bother with this film. It's a glorified soft core porn, and the porn isn't even very good.