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Tag Archives: Theodoros Angelopoulos
The Travelling Players AKA O thiasos (1975) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Eva Kotamanidou, Vangelis Kazan, Aliki Georgouli
A group of traveling players peregrinates through Greece attempting to perform Read More »
Days of ’36 AKA Meres tou ’36 (1972) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Vangelis Kazan, Kostas Pavlou, Thanos Grammenos
It is 1936 in Greece, shortly before the Metaxas’ dictatorship. Read More »
Landscape in the Mist AKA Topio stin omichli (1988) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Michalis Zeke, Tania Palaiologou, Stratos Tzortzoglou
Road movie about two children (Voula and Alexandre) searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Read More »
Eternity and a Day AKA Mia aioniotita kai mia mera (1998) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Alexander, an old writer, is ill and prepared to die. Read More »
Ulysses’ Gaze AKA To vlemma tou Odyssea (1995) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson
A, a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas Read More »
Voyage to Cythera (1984) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Manos Katrakis, Mairi Hronopoulou, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren’t the way he had hoped for. Read More »
To Meteoro Vima tou Pelargou / The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Gregory Patrick Karr, Drama, Romance
Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Read More »
O Melissokomos / The Beekeeper (1986) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani, Drama
Spiros retires as a schoolteacher, his daughter is married, and he starts his annual journey with his bees to get honey from different areas. Read More »
Anaparastasi / Reconstruction (1970) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Toula Stathopoulou, Yannis Totsikas, Thanos Grammenos, Crime, Drama
A woman murders her husband, upon his return home after a long absence, with the complicity of the lover who has relieved her loneliness. Read More »
O Megalexandros / Alexander the Great (1980) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Omero Antonutti, Eva Kotamanidou, Mihalis Giannatos, Drama
Lead by Alexandros (Omero Antonuti), a group of thieves escape from prison. They take several aristocrats hostage, and, together with a few anarchists Read More »