The read
Audiences rate it 49 points higher than critics do. It runs long at 2h 49m.
Synopsis
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes27%
Audiences rate it 49 points higher than critics do.
132 audience votes
Key crew
- Theo AngelopoulosScreenplay
- Theo AngelopoulosDirector
- Eleni KaraindrouOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Harvey KeitelA
- Erland JosephsonIvo Levy
- Maia MorgensternUlysses' Wives
- Thanasis VeggosTaxi Driver
- Giorgos MihalakopoulosNikos
- Dora VolanakiOld Woman
- Mania PapadimitriouMother
- Giorgos KonstasFather
- Thanos GrammenosManakias' Assistant
- Alekos OudinotisGreek Film Library Manager
- Angel IvanovBulgarian Interrogator
- Ljuba TadićMr Jovicic, Man in Charge of the Belgrade Film Archive
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Themes
affectationbalkan warfilm directordrearyarrogantcomplicatedconceitedpretentious