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132 min | Greece/France/Italy | 35 mm
main programme
credits
PROD: Paradis Films, Classic Srl
SALES: The Greek Film Centre
SCENARIO: Theo Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris, Giorgio Silvagni
CAMERA: Yorgos Arvanitis, Andreas Sinani
EDITOR: Yannis Tsitsopoulos
ARTDIR: Giorgos Patsos, Giorgos Ziakas
SOUND: Bernard Leroux
MUSIC: Eleni Karaindrou
CAST: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Achileas Skevis, Fabrizio Bentivoglio
screenings
02 tuesday 22:15 Luxor
03 wednesday 16:30 Path� 4
04 thursday 14:00 Venster 1
06 saturday 17:00 Maastricht Path� 1
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On a rainy Sunday in Thessaloniki, the ageing writer Alexander prepares to leave his house by the sea where he has lived all his life. Next day he is to go into hospital. His doctor told him to go in when the pain became unbearable. It hadn't been long, that much is clear from his monologue. As he clears up his things, he finds letters from his wife who died long before and he is gripped by all kinds of memories. He realises how much she loved him and how much he - a writer obsessed by his work - acted as if that was normal. Past and present are brought together when an unexpected encounter with an Albanian boy offers the writer an opportunity to relive moments of past happiness. He sets off to reunite the boy with his grandmother in Albania. This is the start of a mysterious journey and a special friendship. Eternity and a Day is clearly recognisable as an 'Angelopoulos', not last because of the lengthy and poetic shots and a beautiful soundtrack. For this film, Angelopoulos again co-operated with cameraman Yorgos Arvanitis and resident composer Eleni Karaindrou and eventually won a Golden Palm at Cannes with this, his eleventh feature. Eternity and a Day again confirms his status as one of the great masters of the film art.
Theo Angelopoulos
Theo Angelopoulos (1936, Athens) studied law at the University of Athens and then attended the I.D.H.E.C. (film school) in Paris. Between 1964 and 1967 he was film critic for the Athens daily Allagi. From 1972 to 1977 he made a film trilogy about modern Greek history. In a recent poll among critics he was deemed one of the ten most important contemporary film-makers. Various films by Angelopoulos, among them The Beekeeper and Landscape in the Mist, have been seen previously in Rotterdam.
films
Films: Formix Story (1965), Ekpombi (1968, short), Anaparastassi / Reconstruction (1970), Imeres tou 36 / Days of '36 (1972), O thiassos / The Travelling Players (1975), I kynighi / The Hunters (1977), O Megalexandros (1980), Athens (1982), Taxidi sta Kithira / Voyage to Cythera (1984), Melissokomos / The Beekeeper (1986), Topio stin omichli / Landscape in the Mist (1988), To meteoro vima tou pelargou / The Suspended Stride of the Stork (1991).
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