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O melissokomos (French version)
Location
Main screening room
Date
January 14th, 2025
Duration
122 min
Cycle
Marcello Mastroianni

The extraordinary journey of this actor, a leading figure in Italian and European cinema for over three decades, brings us back to the heart of the most demanding auteur cinema, as well as to the most inventive, joyful, and iconic popular films. With a unique sense of style and a casual elegance, he became one of the most accomplished embodiments of the screen actor.

The Beekeeper
Directed by
Theo Angelopoulos
Language
French version
Actors
Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani
Origins
Greece, France, Italy
Year
1986
Duration
122 min
Genre
Drama
Format
35 mm
Synopsis

A beekeeper crosses Greece from north to south, meeting a young hitchhiker along the way.

The Beekeeper

Theo Angelopoulos

Theo Angelopoulos is a Greek filmmaker. He is considered a leading figure of the Greek New Wave and a prominent figure in modern European cinema. After working as a film critic from 1964 to 1967, he turned to directing. His early films, from 1970 to 1980, are marked by political criticism, primarily of the dictatorship in Greece. He won the Golden Lion and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice Film Festival for Alexander the Great in 1980. With his next three films, he moved away from collective narratives based on history to focus on individual and internal experiences, while maintaining a political discours. He then expanded his discourse, previously focused on Greece, to the world with The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991), Ulysses' Gaze (1995), and Eternity and a Day (1998), which earned him the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. His films are characterized by a hypnotic slowness, enhanced by the sporadic use of voice-over narration. Their complex narrative structures leave ample room for poetic visions.

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