It is New Year’s Eve, 1976. On a Greek island a party of bourgeois hunters comes upon a body, buried in the snow and miraculously preserved by the cold. By his uniform, he appears to be one of the thousands of partisans killed during the civil war and the hunting party, a group of the ruling elite, must now decide what to do with the body. When they disinter it, blood begins to flow from the wounds in the partisan’s body and they carry it back to the lodge where the inquest begins.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 2 hr. 45 min.
- Country, year
- Greece, 1977
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Screenplay
- Theodoros Angelopoulos, Stratis Karras
- Cinematography
- Giorgos Arvanitis
- Music
- Lukianos Killaidonis
- Cast
- Vangelis Kazan, Betty Valassi, Giorgos Danis, Mary Chronopoulou, Ilias Stamatiou, Aliki Georgouli
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- in competition
- Golden Hugo Award for Best Film.
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.
