The Travelling Players

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The Travelling Players ★★ O Thiassos 1975

Slowgoing for those unfamiliar with Greek myths and modern Greek history as the country is continually oppressed and betrayed. A travelling company of provicial actors ply their trade over some 16 years (19361952) while their country experiences the upheavals of a fascist dictatorship, WWII, occupation, civil war, and repression by the rightwing regime. The focus is on ordinary people in ordinary surroundings (with Angelopoulous leaning towards the communist sensibility). Greek with subtitles. 230m/C VHS . GR Eva Kotamanidou, Maria Vassilou, Petros Zarkadis, Aliki Georgouli, Stratos Pahis; D: Theo Angelopoulos; W: Theo Angelopoulos; C: Yorgos Arvanitis; M: Loukianos Kilaidonis.

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