Also God Loves Caviar!

 

Recently it happened to watch a movie on TV which from the title had already aroused my interest. "God loves caviar" is the title, an internationally production, directed by the Greek Giannis Smaragdis and starring Sebastian Koch, Yevgeny Stychkin, Juan Diego Botto, Olga Sutulova, John Cleese, Catherine Deneuve and many other talented actors. The actors come from six different countries, United Kingdom, France, Russia, Spain, Germany and Greece and scenes were shot in five countries.

As you can already imagine from the title, the story has to do with the beloved caviar and the story of Greek Ioannis Varvakis, who is considered a National Benefactor from Psara island. Ioannis Varvakis initially worked as a deckhand on his father's ships and then engaged in trade and later piracy. Varvakis becomes a wealthy caviar trader with the aim of gaining money, power and political influence. In the end he gives all his belongings in the name of great love.

With the support of Catherine the Great of Russia, his action spreads to the shores of the Caspian Sea and ends in Greece, which suffered from the civil war in the period of 1821. I do not really know if my love for caviar or for Greece itself affected me positively, but I loved this movie! All the fanatics of this luxurious delicacy are worth seeing and get to know such an aspect of its history. Over the years, caviar, like many other natural products, has been exploited and enriched by thousands. But it is also worth to learn about the story of someone who left almost all of his vast fortune after his death in the country he was born in order to be used for public purposes.

www.omcaviar.com I do not know if God loves caviar as the title of the movie says. But it certainly has many loyal fanatics around the world and over the centuries this sea superfood, a symbol of wealth worldwide, is worth trying at least once in a lifetime each of us, even if it is possible to add it in our lives occasionally.