Director
Theo Angelopoulos
Composer
Eleni Karaindrou
Cast
Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Edition 1998
132'
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1998
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Drama
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Dialogue:
Italian, English, Greek
Alexander, a noted Greek writer, is preparing to enter the hospital. “When the pain becomes unbearable,” the doctor had said to him. He’s been putting his papers in order. Tomorrow he’ll be leaving the old house by the sea where he has always lived. He finds some letters from Anna, his wife who has been dead for a long time, and he realises how much she loved him. It was a love that he had taken for granted. The memories come flooding back. Alexander’s chief regret is that he’s never completed anything to his own satisfaction. He’s been working on the last unfinished work of a 19th century poet but this must now be put aside. As he drives through the gloomy streets of the city, Alexander crosses the path of an Albanian boy who has fled his country
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Credits
Directors
Theo Angelopoulos
Composers
Eleni Karaindrou
Cast
Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Director of Photography
Giorgos Arvanitis, Andreas Sinanos
Editors
Yannis Tsitsopoulos
Producers
Theo Angelopoulos, Eric Heumann, Amedeo Pagani, Giorgio Silvagni
More info
Dialogue
Italian, English, Greek
Countries of production
Italy, Greece, Germany, France
Year
1998
Filmography
Theo Angelopoulos
Forminx Story (1965), Broadcast (short, 1968), Anaparastasi (1970), Days of '36 (1972), The Travelling Players (1975), The Hunters (1977), Alexander the Great (1980), Athens, Return to the Acropolis (1983), Voyage to Cythera (1984), The Beekeeper (1986), Landscape in the Mist (1988), The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991), Ulysses' Gaze (1995), Eternity and a Day (1998), Trilogy I: The Weeping Meadow (2004), Trilogy II: The Dust of Time (2008), Mundo Invisível (segment, 2012)