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| Director: Theo Angelopoulos Script: Theo Angelopoulos with the participation of Dimitris Nollas and Tonino Guerra Cinematography: Yorgos Arvanitis Music: Eleni Karaindrou Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani, Jenny Roussea, Dinos Iliopoulos Producer: Theo Angelopoulos  Production: Greek Film Centre/ERT-1 TV (Greece)/Marin Karmitz Productions (Paris)/ Basicinematografica (Rome)/Theo Angelopoulos Productions Theo Angelopoulos Alexander The Great Eternity and a Day Landscape in the Mist The Bee Keeper The Hunters The Travelling Players Ulysses' Gaze Voyage to Cythera |
Greece-France-Italy, 1986, 120 min, color  In The Bee Keeper, alienation and despair have so metastasized in the film's central figure that he's virtually one of the walking dead. Spyros, a man soured by a secret, incestuous love for his daughter, on the day of her wedding gives up his position as a schoolteacher, his wife, his home and his city to take up again the profession of his father and grandfather before him. He travels across Greece to the town where he was born and first learned to tend bees, following the traditional beekeeper's route. Like the bee returning to its hive after searching for food, he visits his old friends and his childhood home looking for threads to bind him to the present. At some point he picks up a promiscuous young hitchhiker who seems to represent a new generation. without memory and unconcerned with the past. What he seeks in her is a contact with the future. But in the impossibility of their relationship there is the profound despair of a man without a future - he cannot communicate, even with love, with the body |
THEO ANGELOPOULOS Greek director, born in 1935 in Athens to a family of merchants. He studied law at the University of Athens and became a practicing lawyer. At that time he began writing and publishing essays, stories and poems. After completing his military service in the late 50's, he went to attend the Sorbonne and then enrolled to study film in the prestigious French film school, IDHEC. He worked for a time at the Musee de l'Homme under the tutelage of Jean Rouch, the ethnographer and pioneer of cinema verite film. He returned to Athens in 1964 and, until 1967, was a film critic for the leftist paper "Democratic Change". He began to make films in 1965, an attempt at a full-length feature film entitled "The Forminx Story" which he never completed after a disagreement with the producers and then one short film and in 1970 his first full-length feature film "Reconstruction". Since then his films have participated in countless international festivals and have won numerous awards that have established his reputation as one of the most influential directors in contemporary cinema. Whether dealing with the recent or distant past, most of Angelopoulos' films contain a political message applicable to modern times. Theo Angelopoulos is a strange, solitary and uniquely modern filmmaker. Originally part of the so-called "Paris group", which was at the core of reaction in the sixties against traditional cinema, he soon moved away on his own to carving for himself an important niche among the great directors of the first century of cinema. 1965 Peripeteies me tous Forminx -unfinished 1968 I Ekpombi - short 1970 Anaparastasi 1972 Meres tou 36 1975 O Thiassos 1977 Oi Kynighoi 1980 Megaleksandros 1981 Ena chorio, enas katikos - docu 1983 Athena, epistrofi stin Acropoli - docu 1983 Taxidi sta Kithira 1986 O Melissokomos 1988 Topio stin omichli 1991 To Meteoro vima tou pelargou 1995 To Vlemma tou Odyssea 1995 Lumiere et compagnie - docu, part 1998 Mia eoniotita ke mia mera  |
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