Film

Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos

1993 · 39m · Documentary

Theo Angelopoulos recalls the defining moment in 1964 that led to him to live his entire life in Greece, and explores the concept of borders in his work - as the limits of existence, of life and death, of language and communication. “Narrowing down the borders narrows the communication, stretches the differences, magnifies oppositions, magnifies reasons for war, magnifies the refugees, magnifies the internal exile... In reality a civil war leaves behind wounds which cannot easily be healed and they revive, like ghosts, or like recurrent nightmares, during the long nights which have dogged Greek society for years.”

Theo Angelopoulos

Himself

Jules Dassin

Himself

Giorgos Arvanitis

Himself

• Jane GabrielDirector · Writer
• Tariq AliProducer
• Dan de WaalEditor

Release date

May 15, 1993

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

39m

Genres

Documentary