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Ulysses' gaze
Genre: Drama
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
Short description:
Awakened in Itaca, a contemporary Ulysses, movie director A. starts the
quest for old Balkan pictures, believing that these new ones, full
with horrors of war, have lost their innocence. He starts his journey
through Bulgaria and Romania and arrives to Belgrade. There he finds
out that in Yugoslav film library there are films taken by Milton
Manaki at the beginning of this century. But every attempt to develop
this film is a failure. Images would appear only for second, and
then disappear. And while A. is searching for his images, the war rages
around him. He meets a friend in Belgrade, Greek war reporter,
who tells him about the war. Then he meets the old film library director,
also living in the past. From him he finds out that Manaki's film
was captured in Sarajevo during the war. Passing through danger,
he gets to Sarajevo, finds the film, but he is no longer certain if
he would find his and Balkan's answers there.
Additional information: Producer: Paradis film, La Generale d'Images La Sept Cinema, Canal +,
Basic Cinematographica, Instituto Luce (RAI), Channel 4, Tele Muenchen,
Concorde Films, Herbert Kloider, Eurimages Fund of the Council of
Europe.
Executive producer: Bandur film - Belgrade.
Miodrag Nikolic
cooperated on scenography.
Producer: Theo Angelopoulos, Atina,
Greek Film Centre,
Mega Channel
Writer: Theo Angelopoulos
Music: Eleni Karaindrou
Cinematographer: Yorgos Arvanitis
Production design: Giorgos Patsas
Costume design: Giorgos Ziakas
Film editing: Yannis Tsitsopoulos
Duration: 197 minutes
System:
Standard, color
Premiere: 15.5.1995. |
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