Ulysses' Gaze ( To Vlemma tou Odyssea ) ( Lo Sguardo di Ulisse )

Ulysses' Gaze (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: To Vlemma tou Odyssea
Alternate Title: Lo Sguardo di Ulisse
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
European Film Awards
Goya Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Greek ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
173 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Photo Gallery
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1995 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Greece ( Italy, Greece )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Theo Angelopoulos

Written By:
Theo Angelopoulos
Tonino Guerra

Actors:
Harvey Keitel ..... A
Erland Josephson ..... S., Filmmuseum curator
Maia Morgenstern ..... 'Ulysses' wife
Thanassis Vengos ..... Taxi driver
Yorgos Michalakopoulos ..... Friend and Journalist
Dora Volanaki ..... Old Woman
Mania Papadimitriou
Yorgos Konstas
Agni Vlahou
Angel Ivanof
Ljuba Tadic
Giannis Zavradinos
Vangelis Kazan
Mirka Kalatzopoulou
Gert Llanaj

Synopsis:

'A,' a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first film shot by the Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly criss-crossed the Balkans and, without regard for national and ethnic strife, recorded the region's history and customs. Did these primitive, never-developed images really exist? If so, where are they? - 'Why 'A'? It's an alphabetical choice. Every filmmaker remembers the first time he looked through the viewfinder of a camera. It is a moment that is not so much the discovery of cinema, but the discovery of the world. But there comes a moment when the filmmaker begins to doubt his own capacity to see things, when he no longer knows if his gaze is right and innocent.' --Theo Angelopoulos

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 18 May, 2009.

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