The Theo Angelopoulos Collection (Volume III) - 4-DVD Box Set ( To vlemma tou Odyssea / Mia aioniotita kai mia mera / Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei / Trilogia II: I skoni tou hronou ) ( Ulysses' Gaze / Eternity and a Day / The Weeping Meadow / The Dust of Time )

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

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Original Title: To vlemma tou Odyssea / Mia aioniotita kai mia mera / Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei / Trilogia II: I skoni tou hronou
Alternate Title: Ulysses' Gaze / Eternity and a Day / The Weeping Meadow / The Dust of Time
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
David Donatello Awards
European Film Awards
Goya Awards
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Greek ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Greek ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

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

Running Time:
591 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

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

Movie filmed in 1995 - 2008 and produced in:
Albania ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Greece ( Italy, Greece )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Romania ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Russia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
Yugoslavia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Theodoros Angelopoulos

Written By:
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Tonino Guerra

Actors:
Harvey Keitel ..... A
Erland Josephson ..... S., Film Museum Curator
Maia Morgenstern ..... 'Ulysses' Wife
Thanasis Vengos ..... Taxi Driver
Giorgos Mihalakopoulos ..... Friend and Journalist
Costas Santas ..... Old Woman
Dora Volanaki
Mania Papadimitriou
Giorgos Konstas
Thanos Grammenos
Alekos Oudinotis
Angel Ivanof
Ljuba Tadic
Vaggelis Liodakis
Gert Llanaj
Bruno Ganz ..... Alexandre
Isabelle Renauld ..... Anna
Fabrizio Bentivoglio ..... The Poet
Achileas Skevis ..... The Child
Alexandra Ladikou ..... Anna's Mother
Despina Bebedelli ..... Alexandre's Mother
Eleni Gerasimidou ..... Urania
Iris Chatziantoniou ..... Alexandre's Daughter
Nikos Kouros ..... Anna's Uncle
Alekos Oudinotis ..... Anna's Father
Nikos Kolovos ..... The Doctor
Andreas Chekouras
Mihalis Giannatos
Petros Markaris
Yannis Mohlas
Alexandra Aidini ..... Eleni
Nikos Poursanidis ..... Alexis
Giorgos Armenis ..... Nikos
Vasilis Kolovos ..... Spyros
Eva Kotamanidou ..... Kassandra
Toula Stathopoulou ..... Woman in the Coffee House
Thalia Argyriou ..... Danai
Smaro Gaitanidou ..... Zisis
Mihalis Giannatos ..... Teacher
Grigoris Evangelatos
Aliki Kamineli
Amdromachi Chrisomelli
Alex Moukanos
Dimitris Kolovos
Thodoros Teknetzidis
Willem Dafoe ..... A
Bruno Ganz ..... Jacob
Michel Piccoli ..... Spyros
Irène Jacob ..... Eleni
Christiane Paul ..... Helga
Kostas Apostolidis ..... Secretary
Tiziana Pfiffner ..... Young Eleni
Alexandros Mylonas ..... Man in the Train
Norman Mozzato ..... Hotel Manager
Reni Pittaki ..... Composer
Alessia Franchini ..... A's Secretary
Valentina Carnelutti ..... Empfangschefin
Chantel Brathwaite ..... Young Eleni's Friend
Herbert Meurer ..... Doctor
Sviatoslav Yshakov ..... Grandfather

Synopsis:

A collection of four dramas by Greek film maker Theo Angelopoulos. 'Ulysses' Gaze' (1995) stars Harvey Keitel as a Greek film maker journeying across the Balkans to return home after 35 years, confronting various demons from his past along the way. In 'Eternity and a Day' (1998), ailing Greek poet Alexander (Bruno Ganz) is preparing to put his affairs in order, resigned to the fact that he is not long for this world. After a visit to his daughter, however, Alexander finds himself thinking of his late wife, remembering happier times. When he encounters a small boy (Ahilleas Skevis) who has been abducted by an illegal adoption ring, Alexander determines to rescue the child and return him to his home. 'The Weeping Meadow' (2004) is the first film in Angelopoulos's loosely-connected 'Dust of Time' trilogy. The film traces the childhood love affair of Spyros (Vasilis Kolovos) and Eleni (Alexandra Aidini), two children from Odessa who grow up in a refugee encampment near Thessaloniki in the 1920 and '30s. 'The Dust of Time' (2008), continues the love story of Spyros and Eleni. Willem Dafoe stars as A, the couple's son, an American-born film maker who sets out to make an autobiographical film charting his life story from the day he was born in 1953 until the present day.

Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
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.'

Eternity and a Day (1998)
Alexander, an old writer, is ill and prepared to die. He says his goodbyes and recalls his life with his wife long ago. While driving his car he saves a street kid, an illegal immigrant from Albania, from being arrested. Later in the day, by chance, he sees the same boy being abducted, and follows in his car. Although he is preoccupied with his own regrets, he puts death on hold to find a way to help the boy.

The Weeping Meadow (2004)
This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is also taken care by Alexis' family. The refugees build a small village somewhere near a river and we watch as the kids grow up and fall in love. But difficult times of dictatorship and war are coming...

The Dust of Time (2008)
A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and claims the absoluteness of love. At the same time the film is a long journey into the vast history and the events of the last fifty years that left their mark on the 20th century. The characters in the film move as though in a dream. The dust of time confuses memories. A searches for them and experiences them in the present.

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. Harvey Keitel stars in Ulysses' Gaze (1995) as a Greek filmmaker journeying across the Balkans to return home after 35 years, confronting various demons from his past along the way. In Eternity and a Day (1998), ailing Greek poet Alexander (Bruno Ganz) is preparing to put his affairs in order, resigned to the fact that he is not long for this world. After a visit to his daughter, however, Alexander finds himself thinking of his late wife, remembering happier times. When he encounters a small boy (Ahellis Skevis) who has been abducted by an illegal adoption ring, Alexander determines to rescue the child and return him to his home. En route he rediscovers his zest both for writing and life itself, making an inspiring journey of self-discovery in which past and present are intertwined. The Weeping Meadow (2004) is the first film in Angelopoulos' loosely-connected 'Dust of Time' trilogy. The film traces the childhood love affair of Spyros (Vasilis Kolovos) and Eleni (Alexandra Aidini), two children from Odessa who grow up in a refugee encampment near Thessaloniki in the 1920 and 30s. As they grow up together, the two fall in love - but war is looming and difficult times lie ahead. The second film in the trilogy, The Dust of Time (2008), continues the love story of Spyros and Eleni (played in this instalment by Michel Piccoli and Irène Jacob). Willem Dafoe stars as A, the couple's son, an American-born filmmaker who sets out to make an autobiographical film charting his life story from the day he was born in 1953 until the present day. Sifting through long-buried memories, A drifts into a dream-like narrative that unfolds in the former Soviet Union, the Austrian-Hungarian borders, Italy and New York, and takes in historical events from Stalin's death to Nixon's resignation and the fall of the Greek junta.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 18 July, 2012.

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