Brides (Nyfes) (Νύφες)

Come on now, Eleni...

- Come Niki, quick. - Eleni, how is Eleni?

Eleni... Eleni?

Lenio?

Oh, my poor Eleni...

It's me... My little sister?

My little girl?

What did this man do to you?

Hey Kids!

Oh come on, let's go, tell me what's on the tree over here.

Do you see? Eh? You see?

Up here? On this branch here?

Is it pretty?

Allah opened the skies today.

- Yes He did! Do you got anything for me? - Yes.

Key, two messages and... a packet!

All for you Mr Harris.

A present?

Yeah, I hope so Guilmaz, thank you.

Dear Norman...

Your photographs of the war between the Greeks and the Turks at the Asia minor...

...are interesting, although too artistic for a daily newspaper.

Unfortunately, we have already hired one of your colleagues...

Why, slipping out of our hands like that!

Waste such a proper tailor...

- All that Chicago! - She couldn't take it uncle...

God filled our family up with daughters...

Like locusts!

And no husbands, no dowries! You can thank the war for that...

My poor little ones, they'll end up old maids!

Seven cousins of age to marry.

Why let's send him another one. Him... Prodromos man!

This time, it'll be my own gal.

Ma Alexandra! Ready to go to the end of the world even.

Alexandra, say it yourself.

...she’s become 27 too...

...29... - SHUTUP!!!

My Brother, I have four unmarried ones and I'm a widow.

I want a second chance.

The godmother of the bride knows I need her help the most.

Niki...

...your turn.

Prodromos is a very honest man.

Prodromos is a VERY honest man.

Now, you know more English too. And I'll teach you some extra. So?

So why bother calling us then? You two had your minds made up already.

Alexandra!

Tis'unfair...

...and God... why HE SEES THAT!

Thrace, Greece

Haro!

Haro!

Harooooooo!

Daughter... Haro!

Haro!

...Andony...

...Andony...

My longhaired Haro....

The doctor said that coming Monday,

we'll break the plaster and check what the leg too.

I'm optimistic still.

I want to return to Samothrace a whole man.

Haro, you never wrote me the color of your eyes.

Hazel maybe?

What would have I become all these months without your letters?

Kissing you softly

soldier, Andonios Memas

The Servant of God Charikleia, is being wed to the Servant of God Constantine,

in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, Amen.

Have a safe trip to America.

Forgive me...

...I desperately wished to see you, a bride...

...Granpa...

Odessa, Russia

Natalia Petrovna

Thank you.

Daria Imanovna?

- Thank you! - Yes yes yes,

Maria Nouamovna.

Thank you, oh thank you so much.

Did you go to the doctor I told you about?

Olga, my little goldditch, well this will pay for your ticket.

Ok, we like to look at the... the young man, ok? Sit down, sit!

Ok, Gennardi Luidgi, 30 years old.

A railroad worker on the west coast of America, eh?

Look at those eyes, eh? Handsome son of a bitch.

We wrote to each other that on the 22nd of May, 1922...

...it is of course today in other words, at...

...10 o'clock, precisely, which is midnight American Time...

...a priest, will place a ring...

...on the finger of the lucky fiance.

Ok, please, please everybody, lets have quiet, ok? Thank you very much.

Ok, Olga...

...stay over here... yeah...

I announce the engagement of the Servant of God, Olga...

...to the Servant of God, Genandi.

...So, you are now, engaged.

Is feel good, yeah?

When I arrived, there was a blizzard.

Yes. The snow, a meter high.

Fifteen days and nights I cried.

Chicago was not for me...

You think it'll be for me then?

I swear upon our father's bones Niki.

Prodromos is a soft person.

A second wife he takes, from the same house, in less than four months.

He immediately agreed. I couldn't believe it either!

Do you love here? On the island?

Did I ever sew a new dress myself to go on a date?

Did I ever placed flowers on the chest?

Did I ever wait up the postman on my door? ...love...

Love Eleni is for those who can afford to waste time. I'm better off without it...

If only it was a stranger...

Someone to wait me first...

I'm immigrating to marry in the same wedding dress...

...holding the same photograph you were holding last year, yourself...

Are you sure?

If you got the cash, yes.

Sold to Boston World then...

From Smyrna Gazette to Boston World.

And you just take my first pay check.

Get out of here...

Good luck kid... And watch your ass in the battle.

Have a good trip, Big Guy!

It's been a while since you read my palm Emine. What does it say now?

A wave will erase all your past life...

It already has... I'm gonna start over again.

- How? - Who knows?

Selling automobiles maybe... Or shoes!

And no more pictures?

I'm going home...

...least I can maybe save my marriage.

Hey! Those glasses! Who did you ask for this lady?

- Let us please, we'll pay... ...took it off that table like that!

- Sorry, but people are thirsty. What... - Oh come on now, I've got work to do...

- All this fuss for a few drops of water! - What a sort o'men really...

Yeah, let him go to hell now, calm down...

We'll find water someplace else, no?

Who are all these women?

They are the mail-order brides.

Wars, rape, orphanhood, earthquakes. Poverty...

That's what's driving these women away.

- To where? - To America!

Which is full of unmarried immigrants.

My god, Don't let the sea get angry...

Make America be beautiful...

Make it like Russia...

Have mercy on us and save us all, Amen.

Are you from Samothrace by any chance?

- Anyone coming from Samothrace? - Palliasse...

Anybody from Samothrace?

- Any gal from Samothrace? - Giannena here!

"My sugarplum", zaharenio mou.

- Any gal coming from Samothrace? - Here!

Come.

Sit.

Sit here with us.

- What's this thing? - My grandpa's outi.

He taught me how to play.

- Are you seamstresses? - I am.

Bay leaves and garlic. I have lentils as well.

The groom asked for his favorite dish.

American garlic is said to be weak. No smell.

Prodromos. He owns a tailor's atelier at Chicago.

He'll do the men's I'll do the women's garments.

He asked for a wife, any wife as long as she's not a nagging one.

What was I supposed to do? Four women depend on me.

Four MEN depend on me.

My name is Niki. These six are from the island as well.

Aggeliki, Lemonia...

- Katerina. - Margarita.

- Antigone. - Maria.

Samothrace off to conquer Chicago!

My name is Haro and I come from Thrace.

In Thrace, I worked making Turkish Delights, but the earthquake destroyed the factory.

I'm off to Canada now, to marry a pastry maker.

Oh! Is he from Samothrace?

Is the Pastry-man a Samothracean?

No, not him...

Prince is wonderful. Making money is fine.

Hey girls, lets go to dance!

Cheers!

Nice party, eh?

You know each other! Marion...

Mr. Harris...

Our friend Emine told me that you are an excellent war photographer.

I'd like to ask you a favor.

Take my portrait...

...for the newspaper of my island, Myconos.

Fat Giorgos, the ship's photographer, did not do a good job.

Both times I came out with my eyes closed.

I'm sorry but my photography days are over.

So, are wars the only thing that inspires you or...

...exclusively "manly" things?

The war doesn't inspire me.

What... what about these?

Sweet eh?

- I was never so lucky, mister... - Karaboulat. Ka-ra-bou-lat.

From the beautiful land of Georgia. You should photograph it sometime.

I have an immigration agency. I have 70 passengers on board.