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Theo Angelopoulos

The Weeping Meadow (Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei)

Director Theo Angelopoulos Composer Eleni Karaindrou Cast Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis
Edition 2021
170' - 2004 - Drama - Dialogue: Greek

The Weeping Meadow is the first film of a projected trilogy about recent events in Greek history.

The film is set entirely in Greece between 1919 and 1949. It begins with the entry of the Red Army into Odessa and the flight of the Greek community there and ends in 1949 with the end of the Greek civil war.

“A construct of elegiac tableaux, classical Greek tragedy and early 20th-century Greek history” - Sight & Sound

“We rarely get to see a film of such ambition, expertise and vision.” - Time Out

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Credits

Directors

Theo Angelopoulos

Composers

Eleni Karaindrou

Cast

Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis

Scenario

Theo Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris, Giorgio Silvagni

Director of Photography

Andreas Sinanos

Editors

Giorgos Triandafyllou

Producers

Theo Angelopoulos, Reinhold Elschot, Peter Nadermann, Meinolf Zurhorst

Production studios

Theo Angelopoulos Films, Greek Film Centre, Hellenic Radio & Television (ERT), Attica Art Productions, Bac Films International, Intermédias, ARTE

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Dialogue

Greek

Countries of production

Italy, Greece, Germany, France

Year

2004

Filmography

Theo Angelopoulos
Forminx Story (1965), Broadcast (short, 1968), Anaparastasi (1970), Days of '36 (1972), The Travelling Players (1975), The Hunters (1977), Alexander the Great (1980), Athens, Return to the Acropolis (1983), Voyage to Cythera (1984), The Beekeeper (1986), Landscape in the Mist (1988), The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991), Ulysses' Gaze (1995), Eternity and a Day (1998), Trilogy I: The Weeping Meadow (2004), Trilogy II: The Dust of Time (2008), Mundo Invisível (segment, 2012)