Based on a book by Nikos Athenassiadis titled A Naked Young Girl, this slight, uneven fantasy-romance takes place on an isolated Greek island with a unique, petrified tree -- a part of the reason why Mathieu, a geologist (Christophe Malavoy) has arrived to do some research there. Other than the boatman who ferries back and forth to the mainland, the island's only inhabitants are a fisherman and his very pretty daughter Eleni (Eleni Drogoumi). Eleni seems a bit different right from the beginning; on the one hand, she likes wandering around dressed only in a long shirt, and on the other, she has a penchant for swimming all night with the dolphins. When the usually arrogant geologist starts transferring some of his interest from rocks to Eleni's comings-and-goings, he wonders if there is not something fishy about her parentage.
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Christophe Malavoy
Mathieu
Known for
Death in a French Garden
The Adulteen
Eleni Dragoumi
Eléni
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Philippe Muyl
Nikos Athanassiadis
Νίκος Αθανασιάδης
Julien Guiomar
Thomas
Known for
The Wing or the Thigh?
Asterix and the Big Fight
Georges Pellegrin
Yavuz Özkan
Thomas
Also in
The Exorcist
Thirsty for Love: Sex and Murder
Philippe Muyl Director · Nikos Athanassiadis Author Luc Le Masne Composer
First release January 16, 1985
Languages
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · January 16, 1985
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No release date listed for United States.
Portugal
February 1, 1986 · Fantasporto Film Festival
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