The action takes place during the years 1939-52 and reveals the period’s turbulent history while fo- cusing on a travelling company of actors who spend those fourteen years wandering through provinces, cities and villages, performing, in increasingly threadbare circumstances, a 19th century pastoral melodrama, Persiadis’ Golfo the Shepherdess. They never get to finish the play and the tranquil sheep painted on their back cloth gaze down upon generations of anguish and bloodshed.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 3 hr. 50 min.
- Country, year
- Greece, 1975
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Screenplay
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Cinematography
- Giorgos Arvanitis
- Music
- Loukianos Kilaidonis
- Cast
- Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli, Vangelis Kazan, Stratos Pahis, Kyriahos Katrivanos, Yannis Firios
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- FIPRESCI Prize
- Interfilm Award
- Film of the Year
- Greek Critics Association Awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Actor, Best Actress.
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.
