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| Director: Theo Angelopoulos Script: Theo Angelopoulos Cinematography: Yorgos Arvanitis Music: Loukianos Kilaidonis Cast: Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli, Stratos Pachis, Maria Vassiliou, Vangelis Kazan, Petros Zarkadis Producer: Yorgos Papalios  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 |
O THIASSOS Greece, 1974-75, 230 min, color 
Awards: Cannes '75 - FIPRESCI Award at Parallel Sections Greek Critics Association - 5 awards (film, direction, screenplay, best actor to Stratos Pachis and best actress to Eva Kotamanidou) BFI '76 - Best Film of the Year Italian Film Critics Association - Best Film in the World, 1970-80
The Travelling Players is a film of epic proportions. The action takes place during the years 1939-52 and is seen as a series of individual, often inexplicable events or tableaux, commentated by monologues, by slogans written on the walls, or by songs. It reveals the period's turbulent history while focusing on a traveling company of actors who spend those 14 years wandering through provinces, cities and villages, performing, in increasingly threadbare circumstances, a 19th century pastoral melodrama, Persiadis' "Golfo the Shepherdess". They never get to finish the play and the tranquil sheep painted on their curtain gaze down upon generations of anguish and bloodshed. The passage of history reverberates in individual incidents or is summarized in symbols.
Theo Angelopoulos
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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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