Focus on Theodoros Angelopoulos

Landscape in the Mist

2 hr. 5 min. | Drama | N/A

In the chaos, two children appear, little Alexandros and his older sister Voula. In order to exorcise their loneliness, they invent a secret universe for themselves, inhabited by their dreams. Every night they go to a train station to watch the departure of a train to Germany, where, they have been deceived by their mother into believing that, their absent father is living. One night they finally dare to get on the train. But their voyage turns out to be hazard- ous and pointless and disappointing. They confront suffering, physical and moral illness, jealousy, evil and death, also love – as many ordeals and rites as initiations.

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Theodoros Angelopoulos was born in 1935, Athens. In his young days, cinema world had never crossed his mind. He entered the university to study law, but after serving the army, T. Angelopoulos gave up law studies and started studying literature. He is the author of 13 feature films and has received numerous awards for them, including “Palm d’Or” for “Eternity and a Day”. Theodoros Angelopoulos died in 2012 in a road accident. His last piece – The Other Sea (L’altro mare) – remained unfinished.
Languages
Greek
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
Topio stin Omichi
Produced
1988: Greece, France, Italy

Film information

Director
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Screenplay
Theodoros Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Thanassis Valtinos
Music
Eleni Karaindrou
Cinematography
Giorgos Arvanitis
Cast
Tania Palaiologou, Michalis Zeke, Stratos Tzortzoglou
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