The poet Orestis Lascos was twenty-two when he made Daphnis and Chloe, considered to be the first artistic accomplishment of Greek cinema and also the first to have a world-wide commercial success. Derived from the classic idyll by Longus (2nd century A.D.), it is a charming and sometimes surrealistic story about the love between two young innocents who have grown up as shepherds in the meadows of Lesbos. Shot on location amid the soft landscapes of the island, the film's lyricism is enhanced by the "innocence, beauty and refreshing awkwardness" (CM) of its young amateur actors, and the "impressively pure eroticism" of some of its scenes. Lascos, unable to make another film for fifteen years, worked in the theater.