Mahi
Mahi (greek female name also meaning battle) returns to present-day Greece and, through a TV interview, reveals that in 1973, during the years of the dictatorship, he was an officer in the Greek army…
Mahi
Mahi (greek female name also meaning battle) returns to present-day Greece and, through a TV interview, reveals that in 1973, during the years of the dictatorship, he was an officer in the Greek army named Georgios when he passionately fell in love with a young communist soldier serving at the Tripoli military camp. Their relationship was soon exposed, and both men were sent to military prison, where they were tortured and abused. In the same interview, Mahi recounts that his wife at the time conveyed to him that he should forget her and their children forever. After the fall of the dictatorship, he left Greece, soon underwent a sex change operation, and moved to Germany, where she began a career as a singer. She concludes her confession by revealing that, after her transition, she chose her new name in honor of her beloved daughter. Immediately after, we see the daughter, distraught, at the bedside of her beloved brother in the intensive care unit. Having convinced himself over the years that his father had died heroically fighting against the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, he attempts suicide after watching the interview. When the two women, both named Mahi, meet for the first time, the younger makes it clear that she has been waiting for this moment her entire life, but if her brother does not recover, she will kill her. Until then, however, they will live together in the old family home, just like before. Thus, right after the TV interview, without a single flashback to the past, the film truly begins-exploring the complex coexistence of the two women. It is an attempt to reconnect, after half a century of absolute silence and absence, the thread between a seven-year-old daughter and a father who, before their violent separation, shared a bond of deep, almost obsessive love. Much will transpire before the two women become one in body and soul in the film's unexpected finale.
Mahi
Drama
Film Details
Mahi (greek female name also meaning battle) returns to present-day Greece and, through a TV interview, reveals that in 1973, during the years of the dictatorship, he was an officer in the Greek army named Georgios when he passionately fell in love with a young communist soldier serving at the Tripoli military camp. Their relationship was soon exposed, and both men were sent to military prison, where they were tortured and abused. In the same interview, Mahi recounts that his wife at the time conveyed to him that he should forget her and their children forever.
After the fall of the dictatorship, he left Greece, soon underwent a sex change operation, and moved to Germany, where she began a career as a singer. She concludes her confession by revealing that, after her transition, she chose her new name in honor of her beloved daughter. Immediately after, we see the daughter, distraught, at the bedside of her beloved brother in the intensive care unit.
Having convinced himself over the years that his father had died heroically fighting against the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, he attempts suicide after watching the interview. When the two women, both named Mahi, meet for the first time, the younger makes it clear that she has been waiting for this moment her entire life, but if her brother does not recover, she will kill her. Until then, however, they will live together in the old family home, just like before.
Thus, right after the TV interview, without a single flashback to the past, the film truly begins-exploring the complex coexistence of the two women. It is an attempt to reconnect, after half a century of absolute silence and absence, the thread between a seven-year-old daughter and a father who, before their violent separation, shared a bond of deep, almost obsessive love. Much will transpire before the two women become one in body and soul in the film's unexpected finale..