The Theo Angelopoulos Collection - Volume 1 - 4-DVD Box Set ( Anaparastasi (Yeniden Yaratma) / Meres tou '36 / O thiasos (Kumpanya) / Oi kynigoi (Les chasseurs) ) ( Reconstruction / Days of 36 (Days of Thirty Six) / The Travelling Players / The Hunters )

The Theo Angelopoulos Collection - Volume 1 - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Anaparastasi (Yeniden Yaratma) / Meres tou '36 / O thiasos (Kumpanya) / Oi kynigoi (Les chasseurs)
Alternate Title: Reconstruction / Days of 36 (Days of Thirty Six) / The Travelling Players / The Hunters
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

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

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
566 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1970 - 1977 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Greece ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Theodoros Angelopoulos

Written By:
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Stratis Karras

Actors:
Toula Stathopoulou ..... Eleni
Yannis Totsikas ..... Hristos Gikas
Thanos Grammenos ..... Eleni's Brother
Petros Hoedas ..... Investigator
Mihalis Fotopoulos ..... Kostas Gousis
Yannis Balaskas ..... Police Officer
Nicos Alevras ..... Invenstigator's Assistant
Alekos Alexiou ..... Journalist
Theodoros Angelopoulos ..... Journalist
Giorgos Arvanitis ..... Journalist
Mersoula Kapsali
Adonis Lykouresis
Christos Paliyannopoulos
Telis Samandas
Vangelis Kazan ..... Sofianos
Kostas Pavlou ..... Brother of Convict
Thanos Grammenos ..... Kontaxis
Giorgos Kyritsis ..... Prison Director
Petros Zarkadis ..... Hostage
Christoforos Nezer ..... Chief of Police
Toula Stathopoulou
Christos Kalavrouzos
Vasilis Tsaglos
Giannis Kandilas
Petros Hoedas
Takis Doukatos
Alekos Boubis
Giorgos Tzifos
Kaiti Ibrohori
Eva Kotamanidou ..... Elektra
Aliki Georgouli ..... Elektra's Mother
Vangelis Kazan ..... Aegisthus
Stratos Pahis ..... Elektra's Father
Maria Vassiliou ..... Chrysothemis
Petros Zarkadis ..... Orests
Kiriakos Katrivanos ..... Pyladis
Giannis Fyrios ..... Accordionisth
Nina Papazaphiropoulou ..... Old Woman
Alekos Boubis ..... Old Man
Grigoris Evangelatos ..... Poet
Giorgos Tzifos ..... Militia leader
Kosta Stiliaris
Thanos Grammenos
Mairi Hronopoulou ..... Sawas
Eva Kotamanidou ..... Industrialist
Aliki Georgouli ..... Constructor
Vangelis Kazan ..... Politician
Betty Valassi ..... Militarist
Giorgos Danis
Stratos Pahis
Christoforos Nezer
Dimitris Kaberidis
Takis Doukakos
Nikos Kouros
Rafael Denogias
Giorgos Frantzeskakis
Loukas Hrelias

Synopsis:

Reconstruction (1970)
A woman murders her husband, upon his return home after a long absence, with the complicity of the lover who has relieved her loneliness.

Days of 36 (1972)
It is 1936 in Greece, shortly before the Metaxas' dictatorship. A former drug trafficker and police informer, Sofianos, is in prison because of the assassination of a trade unionist during a rally.

The Travelling Players (1975)
A group of traveling players peregrinates through Greece attempting to perform the popular erotic drama Golfo The Shepherdess.

The Hunters (1977)
This drama explores the activities of a small group of Greek leftists who supported a 1949 attempted left-wing takeover of their government.

Reconstruction (1970)
A woman murders her husband, upon his return home after a long absence, with the complicity of the lover who has relieved her loneliness. Costas Ghoussis, an emigrant recently returned to his native country, is coming back from the fields, a shovel on his shoulder. He pushes open the garden gate in front of his house and calls his wife: Eleni! She does not answer; the reason: she is hidden behind the door of the kitchen with another man, Christos, a gamekeeper, the lover that she took during her husband's absence. Just as Costas crosses the threshold he is attacked and strangled. Despite their precautions, a relative of the victim suspects them and alerts the police. The criminals confess their crime. The reconstruction is that of the examining magistrate, whose inquiries are interspersed with sequences of the crime - although the actual murder is never shown - and with a social documentary which a TV unit (including the director himself) is making about the crime and the village.

Days of 36 (1972)
It is 1936 in Greece, shortly before the Metaxas' dictatorship. A former drug trafficker and police informer, Sofianos, is in prison because of the assassination of a trade unionist during a rally. A conservative politician, Kriezis, with whom Sofianos had a homosexual relationship, visits him in prison. Using a smuggled gun Sofianos manages to take him hostage in his cell and blackmails the police in order to be released. The government is at a dead end and the country finds itself in a crisis. If they free Kriezis, they will lose the support of the democrats, if they don't, they will lose the support of the conservatives. Being incapable of dealing with the situation, the government decide to kill Sofianos. First, they attempt clumsily to poison him and then they hire a sniper to shoot him.

The Travelling Players (1975)
A group of traveling players peregrinates through Greece attempting to perform the popular erotic drama Golfo The Shepherdess. In a first level the film focuses on the historical events between 1939 and 1952 as they are experienced by the traveling players and as they affect the villages which they visit: The last year of Metaxas' fascist dictatorship, the war against the Italians, the Nazi occupation, the liberation, the civil war between left and right wingers, the British and American interventionism in the Greek politics. In a second level the characters live their own drama of jealousy and betrayal, with its roots in the ancient myth of the House of Atreus. Agamemnon, a Greek refugee from Minor Asia, goes to war against the Italians in 1940, joins the resistance against the Germans, and is executed by them after being betrayed by Clytemnestra and Aegisthos. Aegisthos, Clytemnestra's lover, is an informer and collaborator working with the German occupiers. Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, fights on the side of the leftists, avenges his father's death by killing his mother and Aegisthos. He is arrested in 1949 for his guerrilla activities and is executed in prison in 1951. Electra, his sister, helps the leftists and aids her brother in avenging the treachery of their mother and Aegisthos. After the death of Orestes she continues the work of the troupe and her relationship with Pylades. Chrysotheme, Electra's younger sister, collaborates with the Germans, prostitutes herself during the occupation, sides with the British during liberation, and later marries an American. Pylades, close friend of Orestes, is a Communist who is exiled by the Metaxas regime, joins the guerrillas and is arrested and exiled again. Finally he is forced to sign a written denunciation of the left after torture by the right wing and he is released from prison in 1950.

The Hunters (1977)
This drama explores the activities of a small group of Greek leftists who supported a 1949 attempted left-wing takeover of their government. As they adjust to the failure of the coup, they help one another out and move on in their daily lives. One man, who was known to have betrayed one of his friends, has a particularly difficult time.

Theo Angelopoulos is Greece's most celebrated filmmaker and has been acclaimed by British critics Derek Malcolm and David Thompson as one of the world's greatest living directors. His body of work examines the history of modern Greece from a social and political perspective. This first set includes Reconstruction (1970) Days of '36 (1972) The Travelling Players (1975) and The Hunters (1977).

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 01 March, 2012.

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