The Symi Visitor July 2000              Page 13

Pictured above Director Jeanine Meerapfel, talking to her German assistant director Tom Schreiber, whilst filming in Yialos

Film facts and figures.
Budget - 4,500,000 DEM.
Cast and crew - 40 Extras-200
Stars - Angela Molina, Rosana Pastor (Spain),Herbert Knaup (Germany),
Despo Diamadidou (guest star)
Leading cast -,Themis Bazaka, Dimitris Katalifos, Agis Emanouel, Maria Skoula,  Total day's shooting - 35
Greek Producer - Fanis Synadinos
Greek producion manager -
Michalis Daskalakis.
Local production assistant and liaison -
Nikos Halkitis from The Symi Visitor

Jeanine though reserved special praise for the 200-odd extras who were recruited locally.

'They looked really good, and they were so nice and pleasant to deal with. Not only that, they all seemed to have a natural talent for playing their parts, no matter what they were asked to do.
'As a matter of fact the entire population of the Island was really helpful, and didn't complain at all about mind the disruptions we must have caused.

'One particular incident which comes to mind happened when we arrived at a beach at a week-end and a Greek family were already there, complete with their children and three different boats. Three times we had to ask them to move the boats, and they didn't grumble once.  I have to say that if I'd been on a holiday weekend I would't have been too happy about a film crew crashing in on me.'

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filmed, we suddenly heard a third 'yiasu'.....eventually we realised that this had come from one of the local boatmen who had just responded naturally to the greeting.

'We shot the scene again....and again got a third voice on the sound-track.We had to do it a third time before the boatman finally got the message.

'Later, another incident involved a different boatman. This time he was asked to disappear below deck as one of the main characters had to be seen alone on the boat. This was fine - but it was half an hour after the shot had been completed that anyone remembered the poor man  and went down to tell him that it was alright to come on deck again.'

Multi-national
The cast and crew were definitely an international group - a mixture of German, English, Spanish and Greek - but although conversations were often multi-lingual, everyone communicated well. 

Feeding the crew - and some of the extras - was a full-time job and caterer Adriana Shum......................... reported  that in the first two weeks the film members consumed, among other things, 4,440 bottles of water; 100 kilos of bananas, 800 filled rolls, 50 kilos of feta cheese 100 kilos of tomatoes.