Byron: Ballad for a Daemon

Poet Lord Byron decides to fight with the Greek revolutionaries in Missolonghi against the Turks but instead the glorious battle wrestles with fever and his own demons.

Cast

Manos Vakousis

as George Gordon Byron

Vasilis Laggos

as Fletcher

Akis Sakellariou

as Count Gamba

Manolis Sormainis

as Stanhope

Aleksandr Kirillov

as Jeremy Baxter

Igor Yasulovich

as Meyer

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

as President

Vera Sotnikova

as Augusta

Andrey Astrakhantsev

as Doctor Bruno

Farhad Mahmudov

as Loukas

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