Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos

Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos (1993) blends Documentary elements. Top cast includes Theo Angelopoulos, Jules Dassin, and Giorgos Arvanitis. The narrative builds around escalating stakes, urgent decisions, and action-driven momentum.

Actor: Theo Angelopoulos

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.”