THE WEEPING MEADOW
synopsis
The Weaping Meadow is the first film of a Trilogy, and is set in Greece between 1919 and 1949. It begins with the entry of the Red Army into Odessa, the flight of the Greek community and the end of the Greek civil war.
With the references to the Thebaid cycle, the 3 films that make up Trilogy follow the destiny of Hellenism as seen through the relationship of two people who first met as children in 1919 during the fight of the Greeks from Odessa, only to lose each other and find each other again again in different times and places, living through the great historic events of the 20th century and the turn of 21st.
international title: | The Weeping Meadow |
original title: | Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei |
country: | Greece, France, Italy, Germany |
sales agent: | Celluloid Dreams |
year: | 2004 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Theo Angelopoulos |
film run: | 177' |
screenplay: | Theo Angelopoulos |
cast: | Vassilis Kolovòs, Eva Kotamanidou |
cinematography by: | Andreas Sinanos |
film editing: | Giorgos Triantafyllon |
art director: | Kostas Dmitriadis |
costumes designer: | Ioulla Stavridou |
producer: | Amedeo Pagani, Giorgio Silvagni, Jean- Philippe Labadie |
production: | BAC Films, Intermedias, Storie, Greek Film Centre (GR) |