The Hunters

Oi kynigoi

Greece, France

1977

168 Min

Color

Greek

Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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SCR Theodoros Angelopoulos, Stratis Karras

CAST Mairi Hronopoulou, Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli, Vangelis Kazan, Betty Valassi, Giorgos Danis, Stratos Pahis, Christoforos Nezer, Dimitris Kaberidis, Takis Doukakos, Nikos Kouros

A thematic epilogue to the historical trilogy that centers on a group of middle-aged hunters who discover the perfectly preserved, 30 year-old frozen remains of a partisan (bearing an uncoincidental resemblance to the Byzantine image of Jesus Christ) and, compelled to deliberate on its ‘proper’ disposition, spend a haunted, restless evening confronting their past… —Criticker

Director

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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Stathis Athanasiou

16Oct12

Progressive, revolutionary, avant garde, contemporary cinema... in 1977... after the dictatorship... among political and social ruins... The Hunters.

Les films du miroir magique

26Feb12

Could some one explain me why the lenghth of version recently publsihed on DVD in France by Les Editions Potemkine is 144 minutes while both Mubi and Imdb give a length of 168 minutes. Apparently the version published in UK by Artificial Eye has also be cut. Missing scenes have been recently published on Youtube by savagecinema1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW1pveLcwNk Revised version by A. or censorship ?