“The Sea and the Old Man” is an adaptation based on Ernest Hemingway’s classic and Pulitzer Prize-winning work “The Old Man and the Sea,” for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This work is considered a masterpiece of world literature and is likened to a Homeric epic.
It describes the story of a fisherman, Santiago – played by Tasos Nousias – and his journey to the unexplored and vast sea. His epic encounter with a magnificent blue marlin, which the hero managed to catch after 84 days without catching fish. The fish is very strong, Santiago fails to kill it and it, hooked by his fishing line, pulls him and his small boat deeper and deeper into the sea for three days and three nights. Santiago finally manages to kill the fish but because it is too big to fit in the boat, he ties it to its side. On the way back, sharks attack him and eat all the flesh of the huge fish. Beneath this simple story, lies a world rich in symbolism and metaphors about the search for purpose, the resilience of the human spirit, and man’s conflictual relationship with the natural environment.
Manolino, played by Vasilis Milionis, is Santiago’s devoted young apprentice. As his father no longer allows him to go fishing with Santiago, Manolino can only visit him in his daydreams and nighttime dreams at sea, thus establishing the connection between memory, present and future.
Hemingway wrote the story in 1951 and Marlene Kamincksey brings it to our modern times. On the occasion of the title, the figure of the Sea was added, which will be interpreted by the dancer Phaedra Soutou and voiced by Evelyn Assouad.

Credits: Adaptation – Direction: Marlene Kamincksy
Starring Tasos Nousias