The Comet Rimbaud Passing Over Cyprus (2015)

In 1975 in Greece, a high school student discovered the French poet Arthur Rimbaud from a song by Manos Hadjidakis and the poet Nikos Gatsos. Later on, his interest for the "bad boy" of French literature extended beyond the poet's work, to his turbulent personal life, to his first period of wandering(1875-1876), when Rimbaud tried to come to Greece to work on an island "under the beautiful Aegean sky." From December 1978 to May 1879 Rimbaud stayed in Cyprus, where he worked as a supervisor for a French construction company at a quarry in the province of Larnaca and after that, from March to July 1880, he also worked as a supervisor for the construction of the summer villa of the English governor on Mount Troodos.