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• Alexander KLUGE
• Germany
• 2004
• 88min

Anita is a young, Jewish, East German refugee. Without a job or a home, she gets caught stealing and lands in prison. Upon her release, she finds she remains an awkward newcomer. T...

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• Theo ANGELOPOULOS
• Greece
• 2004
• 210min

Megalexandros is a bandit, cut from the same cloth as many others of his ilk that were rife in Greece in the 1800s. Kidnapping a group of English nobles, Megalexandros spirits them...

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• Theo ANGELOPOULOS
• Greece
• 2004
• 120min

Soyros tells his young daughter about the natural selection process of bees. We only hear his voice. The moment then reveals itself as a reminiscence. His daughter is getting marri...

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• Theo ANGELOPOULOS
• Greece
• 2004
• 110min

Sofianos, a one-time police informer, is an ex-drug trafficker out on probation. When a union leader assassinated, Sofianos is arrested for the murder. He strikes a deal with the a...

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• Theo ANGELOPOULOS
• Greece
• 2004
• 132min

Mother, I came to say goodbye. I′m leaving." So begins one of the monologues ot Alexandet, a le" witer. One grey Sunday before he enters the hocpital never to leave again - and pro...

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• Theo ANGELOPOULOS
• Greece
• 2004
• 165min

The Hunters deals squarely with bourgeois Greece in the years following the civil war. On New Year′s Eve, 1976, a hunting party stumbles upon a body buried in the snow. Now, as the...

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• Theo ANGELOPOULOS
• Greece
• 2004
• 126min

In Landscape in the Mist, Theo Angelopoulos′ habitually retuming father character is absent. His children, Alexandros and Voula, are searching for him. They believe - thanks to the...

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• Theo ANGELOPOULOS
• Greece
• 2004
• 126min

In an isolated, border zone town, a joumalist investigates the meaning of the town′s nickname: the walting room. The majority of the residents are refugees - in the town illegally ...

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• Theo ANGELOPOULOS
• Greece
• 2004
• 230min

Between the turbulent years of 1939 and 1952, a traveling drama troupe jourmeys from province to province, village to village, performing Persiadis′ Golfo the Shepherdess. The incr...

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• Theo ANGELOPOULOS
• Greece,Italy,France
• 2004
• 170min

Three autonomous stories - The Weeping Meadow, The Third Wing and Retum- elegantly chronicle the broader story of a time just passed, and acts as a summation of our recent departed...