A Greek-American filmmaker, known simply as «A», returns to his hometown in northern Greece for a screening of his latest controversial film. His real reason for coming back, however, is to track down three long-missing reels of film by Greece's pioneering Manakia brothers who in the early years of cinema traveled through the Balkans, ignoring national and ethnic strife and recording ordinary people, especially craftsmen, on film. Their images, he believes, hold the key to lost innocence and essential truth, to an understanding of Balkan history Thus he embarks on a search that takes him across the war-torn Balkans, a landscape of spectral figures and broken dreams, right to the heart of darkness: a damaged film archive in Sarajevo where his quest ends. Like a latter-day Ulysses he finds his «Ithaca», the missing, undeveloped film and is at last united with the work of the Manakia brothers... his gaze communes with theirs and another journey begins.
| Original Title | To vlemma tou Odyssea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| German Title | Der Blick des Odysseus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| French Title | Le regard d'Ulysse - Ulysses' Gaze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other Titles | Lo sguardo di Ulisse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Directed by | Theo Angelopoulos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | Greece | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Available Formats | 35mm, DVD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Screenplay | Theo Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris, Giorgio Silvagni | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Film Editing | Takis Koumoundouros, Yannis Tsitsopoulos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Soundtrack | Eleni Karaindrou | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cinematography | Giorgos Arvanitis, Andreas Sinanos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sound | Thanassis Arvanitis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Décors | Nikos Triandafilopoulos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Costumes | Giorgos Ziakas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Production | Theo Angelopoulos, Phoebe Economopoulos, Eric Heumann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Runtime | 176 Min. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Griechisch, Englisch, Italienisch/d/f | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cannes Film Festival 1995: Grand Prix du Jury, FIPRESCI Award
Felix Award: Best European Film of the Year 1995
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