Saint Valentine’s Secret Trip

Who moved the relics of Saint Valentine to Lesvos? Why was this story not told for over 100 years? Are these relics authentic? In the film we watch the efforts of a senior clergyman, a historian and an archaeologist to answer these questions through discoveries in an abandoned church, in family graves and in personal archives. As they follow the traces of Valentine on Lesvos, the three protagonists revive the golden age of cosmopolitan Lesvos of the early 20th century.
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Script: Costas Spiropoulos, Yannis Xirouchakis
Cinematography: Andronikos Karakatsanis
Editing: Yannis Xirouchakis
Sound: Dimitrios Iouliou
Music: Antonio Skender, Evanthia Anagnostara
Production: StoryDoc, Municipality of Lesvos
Producers: Costas Spiropoulos
Format: Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2016
Duration: 55
Contact: StoryDoc Costas Spiropoulos spiropoulos@storydoc.gr

Yannis Xirouchakis

Filmography

2011 Periklis Byzantios a Painter’s Life (short)
2012 Ntikos Byzantios: The Chronicle of Forms
2016 Saint Valentine's Secret Trip (short)
2017 Memories and Testimonies – the Long Night of Dictatorship (short)
2019 KETHEA Mosaic: 15 Years Mosaic of Emotions