Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos

Overview

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.”

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 15, 1993

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English, Greek

Countries

United Kingdom

Production

Bandung Productions

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded