The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea

The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea (2019)

Το Θαύμα της Θάλασσας των Σαργασσών

Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman, is miserable in the narrow-minded town in which she's living. While Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is trying to escape from the sticky situations of her life.

Date of release
2019-09-12
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (33)
Runtime
2h 0m
Genres
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director
Syllas Tzoumerkas

Casting

Interesting facts

The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea, is a 2019 thriller/drama Greek film with horror and surrealist elements, directed by Syllas Tzoumerkas. It tells the story of two women‍— a police woman and an eel hatchery worker‍— whose solitary lives cross when a circle of violence erupts in the poor, small town of Western Greece where they live. Angeliki Papoulia, Youla Boudali and Christos Passalis lead the film's ensemble cast.

Production

As a project in development, The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea was presented at the Berlinale Script Station, the Rotterdam-Berlinale Express (the joint programme of Cinemart and the Berlinale Co-Production Market), the Nipkow programme and A.C.E.. At the Berlinale Co-production Market, the project received the Special Mention of the Eurimages Co-production Development Award Jury.

Produced by Maria Drandaki (Homemade Films), with Titus Kreyenberg (unafilm), Ellen Havenith (PRPL), Olle Wirenhed (Kakadua Films), Anthony Muir (Film I Väst), Meinolf Zurhorst (ZDF/ARTE) and Yaba Holst (Svensk Filminstitutet) co-producing, the Greek-German-Dutch-Swedish co-production started shooting in September 2017.

Filming took place in Missolonghi, the Aetolia-Acarnania region, Arta and Athens. Extensive shootings took place at the Missolonghi lake and the deltas of the rivers Achelous and Arachthos. The scenes of the industrial production of the eel were shot at the Geitonas eel hatchery in Arta.

Petrus Sjövik was the film's director of photography and Jorien Sont the film's production designer. Costumes were designed by Marli Aliferi. Hair, make-up and make-up VFX were designed by Linda Boije af Gennäs and Evi Zafiropoulou. The film's original music was composed by three varied musicians: Swedish classical composer Jean-Paul Wall, the Greek alternative minimal techno band drog_A_tek, and pop songwriter Phoebus.

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