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| Director: Theo Angelopoulos Script: Theo Angelopoulos with the participation of Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris and Giorgio Silvagni Cinematography: Yorgos Arvanitis Music: Eleni Karaindrou Cast: Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson, Thanassis Vengos, Yorgos Michalakopoulos, Dora Volanaki Producer: Theo Angelopoulos  Production: Theo Angelopoulos Film Prods./ Greek Film Center (Athens)/ Paradis Films/ La Generale d'Images/ La Sept Cinema (Paris)/ Basic Cinematografica/ Istituto Luce/ RAI (Rome) in association with Tele Munchen/ Concorde Films/ Channel 4 International distribution: Roissy Films, Paris 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 |
TO VLEMA TOU ODYSSEA Greece-Italy-France, 1995, 176 min, color 
Awards: Cannes '95 - 2 awards (Grand Prize of the Jury and FIPRESCI Award (tied with "Land and Freedom")) Felix '95 - FIPRESCI Award French Cyndicate of Cinema Critics - Award for foreign film (tied with "Land and Freedom") Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists - Award for best director of foreign film
A Greek-American filmmaker, known simply as "A", returns to his hometown in northern Greece for a screening of his latest controversial film. His real reason for coming back, however, is to track down three long-missing reels of film by Balkans pioneering Manaki brothers who in the early years of cinema traveled through the Balkans, ignoring national and ethnic strife and recording ordinary people, especially craftsmen, on film. Their images, he believes, hold the key to lost innocence and essential truth, to an understanding of Balkan history. Thus he embarks on a search that takes him across the war-torn Balkans, a landscape of spectral figures and broken dreams, right to the heart of darkness: a damaged film archive in Sarajevo where his quest ends.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out Film Guide
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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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