7 & 12 Oct 2008

BFI Southbank, NFT1, South Bank, London SE1 8XT; Box Office:020 7928 3232
7 October at 19.40, 12 October at 15.00

Directed by Theo Angelopoulos. Starring Maia Morganstern, Erland Josephson, Harvey Keitel
Feature film / Greece-France-Italy /1995 / 177min / colour / English and Greek with English subtitles

Theo Angelopoulos’ fluid, meticulously choreographed epic, rhyming the turbulent history of the Balkans with that of film itself.

Angelopoulos’ acclaimed cinema-centenary epic rhymes the turbulent history of the Balkans with that of film itself, as a director (Harvey Keitel), back in Greece for a retrospective of his work, takes the opportunity to hunt down the first footage ever shot in the region. As he journeys from country to country, the film too embarks on a chronological odyssey, with Angelopoulos’ travelling shots often embracing several historical eras.

Details on www.bfi.org.uk