Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
– This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refug..
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...
20 Feb 2004
Greek
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Theodoros Angelopoulos (story), Theodoros Angelopoulos (screenplay), Tonino Guerra (collaborator), Petros Markaris (collaborator), Giorgio Silvagni (collaborator)
Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis, Vasilis Kolovos
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...
2 wins & 5 nominations.
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