Fiction

ELENI

ERDE WEINT, DIE
Theo Angelopoulos
GR, I, FRA 2003
170 min
V'04

Three films, a trilogy. A poetic summing up of the century that just ended. Three films that are, however, autonomous. A story that begins in Odessa in 1919 with the entry of the Red Army into the city and ends in present-day New York. Exile, separation, wandering, the end of ideologies, and the constant trials of history. One will recognize traces from «Oedipus rex» and «Seven against Thebes» in the course of a love affair and the fate of a woman. It is the first time since Reconstruction (1970) that the pivotal figure in a film of mine is a woman. A child who knows exile and death, a love-struck adolescent, a mother, a solitary woman. More than at any other time before, an elegy on human fate. (Theo Angelopoulos)

Credits
  • Alexandra Aidini - Eleni
  • Nikos Poursanidis - Junger Mann
  • Giorgos Armenis - Nikos
  • Vassilis Kolovos - Spyros
  • Toula Stathopoulou - Frau im Cafe
  • Thalia Argiriou - Danae
  • Theo Angelopoulos
  • Petros Markaris
  • Tonino Geurra
  • Andreas Sinanos
  • Marinos Athanassopoulos
  • Giorgos Triantafyllou
  • Eleni Karaindrou
  • Giorgos Patsas
  • Costas Dimitriadis
  • Ioulia Stavridou
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