L'ORDRE

Raimondakis, a Greek leper, in front of the movie camera tells the story of his life. He spent many long years with other lepers on an island off the coast of Crete. They had been isolated there to die, far from the view of healthy people. Later, they were transferred to a hospital near Athens, but many refused to return to the real world. As a counterbalance to the man's story, the movie camera roams down the corridors, through the alleys and the ruins of the "prison", while an off-camera voice comments on this phenomenon of social exclusion in the second person singular. "Order is the doctors' leprosy" is written as an epigraph.

"Raimondakis is the leprosy genius, talks in the name of all the lepers. The son of a lawyer, he contracted leprosy and was enclosed with his wrists handcuffed; he later became the leader of the island, which measures 800 meters by 400. If there is one film of mine that I would hold in esteem, it is this one" (J.-D. Pollet, 1989).