Days of '36

Meres tou '36

Greece

1972

105 Min

Color

1.37:1

Greek

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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SCR Theodoros Angelopoulos, Stratis Karras, Petros Markaris, Thanassis Valtinos

DP Giorgos Arvanitis, Vassilis Christomoglou

CAST Vangelis Kazan, Kostas Pavlou, Thanos Grammenos, Giorgos Kyritsis, Petros Zarkadis, Christoforos Nezer, Toula Stathopoulou, Christos Kalavrouzos, Vasilis Tsaglos, Giannis Kandilas, Petros Hoedas, Takis Doukatos, Alekos Boubis

SOUND Thanassis Arvanitis

Berlinale (Forum): FIPRESCI Prize, Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs)

Director

Theo Angelopoulos began to study law in Athens but broke up his studies to go to the Sorbonne in Paris in order to study literature. When he had finished his studies, he wanted to attend the School of Cinema at Paris but decided instead to go back to Greece. There he worked as a journalist and critic for the newspaper “Demokratiki Allaghi” until it was banned by the military after a coup d’état. Now unemployed, he decided to make his first movie, Anaparastasi (1970). Internationally successful was his trilogy about the history of Greece from 1930 to 1970 consisting of Meres tou ’36 (1972), O thiasos (1975), and Oi kynigoi (1977). After the end of the dictatorship in Greece, Angelopoulos went to Italy, where he worked with RAI (and more money). His movies then became less political. —IMDb

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joey Noodles

11Jan13

How VERY disappointing, having been impressed VERY much by the three Angelopoulos films I had seen before this one I was expecting another very good film but I was left with a sour taste in the mouth. This is a bit embarrassing on Theo's part, a very novice attempt. At the beginning he ceases to explain who the speaker is, what at Sofiano's motivations etc. Maybe I should've known about the even but it made me angry.