Weeping Meadow

Το λιβάδι που δακρύζει

The weeping meadow is the first film in Theo Angelopoulos' "Trilogy" that tells of the fate of the Greek people through the relationship between two people, a relationship that spans the 20th century all the way to the early 21st. The first part is set in Greece between 1919 and 1949, beginning with the entry of the Red Army into Odessa and the flight of the city's Greek community and ends in 1949 with the end of the Greek civil war. Shooting has already begun on Lake Kerkini where an entire village was built as a film set. The village has now sunk in the waters. Shooting began in early April and will continue in October.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Direction: Theo Angelopoulos
Script: Theo Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris, Giorgio Silvagni
Cinematography: Andreas Sinanos
Editing: Giorgos Triantafyllou
Sound: Marinos Athanassopoulos
Music: Eleni Karaindrou
Actors: Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis, Vassilis Kolovos, Eva Kotamanidou, Toula Stathopoulou, Michalis Yannatos, Thalia Argyriou, Grigoris Evangelatos
Production: Theo Angelopoulos, Centre du Cinema Grec, Attika Art Productions, Television hellenique ( ER), BAC Films S.A., Intermedias S.A., Arte France. With the participatio
Producers: Phoebe Economopoulos
Costumes: Ioulia Stavridou
Sets: Giorgos Patsas, Costas Dimitriadis
Format: 35mm
Color: B&W
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2004
Duration: 170'

Theo Angelopoulos

Theo Angelopoulos was born in Athens in 1935. He studied law at the University of Athens and film at the prestigious French film school, IDHEC. He worked for a time at the Musee de l'Homme under the tutelage of Jean Rouch, the ethnographer and pioneer of cinema verite film. He returned to Athens in 1964 and, until 1967, worked as a film critic. He turned to filmmaking in 1965 and since then his films have participated in countless international festivals and have won numerous awards that have established his reputation as one of the most influential directors in contemporary cinema. Major retrospectives honouring the work of Theo Angelopoulos have been held all over the world.

Filmography

1998 Eternity and a day
1995 Ulysses’ gaze
1991 The suspended step of the stork
1988 Landscape in the mist
1986 The bee-keeper
1984 Voyage to Cythera
1983 Athens, return to the acropolis
1981 One village, one villager, documentary
1980 Megalexandros
1977 The hunters
1975 The travelling players
1972 Days of ‘36 DAYS OF '36, feature FIPRESCI Award, Berlin
(1973)
1970 Reconstraction
1968 Broadcast, short