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Eternity and a Day

Mia aioniotita kai mia mera

Greece, France, Italy, Germany

1998

137 Min
Color
1.75:1
English, Greek, Italian
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DIR Theodoros Angelopoulos

EXEC Phoebe Economopoulos

PROD Theodoros Angelopoulos, Eric Heumann, Amedeo Pagani, Giorgio Silvagni

SCR Theodoros Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris

DP Giorgos Arvanitis, Andreas Sinanos

CAST Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Achileas Skevis, Alexandra Ladikou, Despina Bebedelli, Eleni Gerasimidou, Iris Chatziantoniou, Nikos Kouros, Alekos Oudinotis, Nikos Kolovos

ED Yannis Tsitsopoulos

MUSIC Eleni Karaindrou

SOUND Bernard Leroux, Nikos Papadimitriou

Cannes (In Competition): Palme d'Or, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, São Paulo: Audience Award Runner Up, Toronto, Mar del Plata, São Paulo

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Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize, Theo Angelopoulos’s deeply moving odyssey centers on Alexander (portrayed by Bruno Ganz), a celebrated Greek writer who, while terminally ill, focuses on one special last idyllic day. A poetic, haunting, and abundantly beautiful film, Eternity and a Day weaves an emotionally charged tale of love and life, where the past and the present come together to create a forceful yet eloquent message of hope for the future. Embarking on a dreamy and transcending voyage to relive an idealized time with his long lost wife at their beloved seaside retreat, his day is interrupted as he happens upon a lost and troubled eight year old boy whose future plight brings new meaning to Alexander’s own journey into the past. Crossing paths at a special moment in time, the two strangers, man and boy, share a poignant life experience as one journey ends and a new one begins. —Amazon

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Theodoros Angelopoulos

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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Kyle Lewis

29Oct12

First Angelopoulos film for me and I'm already in love with a new auteur. I felt a slight resemblence to some of the work of Raul Ruiz in this film. It's easy to see why it won the palme d'or this year, Bruno Ganz gives another great perfomance in this amazing work.

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nabil.rjafellah

25Sep12

Le temps dure l’éternité et un jour !

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R i M.

16Sep12

''When I could still recover lost words or retrieve forgotten words from the silence..''

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Florentino Fuentes Rosenbaum

25May12

this is how I discovered the great work of Angelopoulos. Nostalgia, exile, sorrow, loneliness and silence: my go to issues in cinema, and of course, a remarkable cinematography...

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Theo Angelopoulos, 1935-2012

By David Hudson on January 24, 2012

His career spanned four decades and, in 1998, he won the Palme d’Or for Eternity and a Day.

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By jimmylo​running on November 15, 2009

Amazing scene after amazing scene! This movie moves around in circles, almost like a dog looking for a spot to pee, but instead, we have an old man looking backwards and through his life, thinking…  read review

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