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.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 2 hr. 5 min.
- Country, year
- Greece, France, Italy, 1988
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Screenplay
- Theodoros Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Thanassis Valtinos
- Cinematography
- Giorgos Arvanitis
- Music
- Eleni Karaindrou
- Cast
- Tania Palaiologou, Michalis Zeke, Stratos Tzortzoglou
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- Interfilm Award
- Silver Lion Award for Best Director, FIPRESCI Prize
- Felix Award for Best European Film
- Golden Hugo Award for Best Director, Silver Plaque for Best Cinematography.
Director
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.
