O Thiassos (The Travelling Players)

In Egion in 1952, on the eve of the election of Papagos, the field marshal who won the Civil War against Left­wing farces, a troupe of traveling players recall Greek political history and their own personal histories since they last visited the place in 1939. Angelopoulos emerged on the international scene after the seven years of military dictatorship in Greece with one of the most ambitious Greek films to date, partly filmed during the last months of the colonels' regime. (Foreign Film Guide)