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The Dust of Timea film by

Theo Angelopoulos

More than every other time an elegy on human destiny

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The story of a love that began in 1953 in the former Soviet Union and journeys in the world and in the great realm of history to the present day.

A poetic reckoning of the century that has just end-ed and a visionary relationship with the century we are now traversing through a love that challeng-es time.

Exile, separation, wandering, the collapse of ide-ologies and the constant test of history.

The central figure is that of a woman. The Eleni of myth, the Eleni of all myths who is claimed and claims the absolute of love.

More than every other time an elegy on human destiny.

Theo Angelopoulos

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My relationship with Cinema began almost as a nightmare. It was in ’46 or ’47, I don’t quite recall. The post-war years, a time when a lot of people were going to the movies and we – the kids – sneaked in among the jostling adults standing in line at the box office, in order to disappear in the magic darkness of the balcony. I saw many movies then, but the first one was a Michael Curtiz film “Angels With Dirty Faces”. There’s a scene in the film where the hero is led to the electric chair by two guards. As they walk, their shadows grow larger and larger against the wall.Suddenly, a cry… I don’t want to die.I don’t want to die. For a long time afterwards this cry haunted my nights.Cinema entered my life with a shadow that grew larger on a wall and a cry.

I began to write at a very early age, at that same time, overwhelmed by the

tumult and the emotion that the turbulence of previous History had created in me.

The sirens of war in 1940.The German army of occupation entering a deserted Athens. First sounds, first images.Then the Civil War of ’44. The slaughter.My father condemned to death.My mother’s hand trembling in mine as we searched for his body among dozens of others, in a field.A long time later a message from him, from afar.His return on a rainy day.The first stories. The first contact with words, words in search of an image. I didn’t know then. I understood quite some time later when I wrote the words in my first script. The words were “it’s raining”.

In my days, Homer and the ancient tragic poets constituted part of the

school curriculum. The ancient myths inhabit us and we inhabit them.We live in a land full of memories, ancient stones and broken statues. All contemporary Greek art bears the mark of this coexistence.

Theo Angelopoulos about his Cinema

A., an American film director, of Greek descent, returns to the studios in Rome in order to continue shooting a film he had interrupted for some unknown reason.The film is the story of the love of a woman, his mother, for the two men she loved to the very end and who loved her to the very end. The characters in the film lose each other and find each other again, seeking each other in a journey in space, time and the great events of the last half of the 20th century in Siberia, North Kazakhstan, Italy, Germany, America. From the death of Stalin, the Watergate scandal and Vietnam to the fall of the Ber-lin wall, the new era and the traumatic refutation of the dream of a better world at the turn of the century.As though in a dream, A. recalls people and events in the past and painfully relives them in the present. In a deserted Berlin at the dawn of the 21st century, the snow falls silently on time past and time passing, on the universe.

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It would be impossible for the path I have followed, the course I have taken, for my thinking not to have been infused by all this.As the poet says, “they emerged from the dream, as I entered the dream. So our lives were joined together and it will be very difficult to part them again.”From very early on my relationship with literature and poetry brought me close to all the investigations, whether of language or aesthetics, of modernism.Later, in the beginnings of the ’60’s, in Paris, in the days of political activism, Brecht’s epic theater which refuted, up to a point, Aristotle’s definition of dramatic art, was becoming a point of reference.It was years before I went back to Aristotle and his definition of tragedy: “Tragedy is an imitation of a worthy or illustrious and perfect action…”It was years before I discovered that Molly’s monologue in the last chapter of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” is nothing but the distant echo of the astonishing description of Achilles’ arms from Homer’s “Iliad”.

“Reconstruction”, my first film, was born in the period of the

dictatorship of the colonels as an attempt to piece together the truth out of its fragments. Reconstruction not as a goal, but as a journey. The little stories as they are reflected but also determined by the greater History.The father as symbol, presence and absence, as a metaphorical concept as

well as a point of reference.The journey, borders, exile.Human fate.The eternal return.Themes that pursued me and still pursue me.All my obsessions enter and exit my films, as the instruments of an orchestra enter and exit, as they fall silent only to reemerge later.We are condemned to function with our obsessions. We make but one film, we write but one book.Variations and fugues on the same theme.

Many of those who have done me the honour of concerning

themselves with my work think that my manner of writing is the result of political choice.That’s not quite how it is. Of course, while I was shooting “Days of ’36”, a film about dictatorship during a time of dictatorship, so it was impossible to use direct references I sought a secret language. The allusions of History. The “dead time” of a conspiracy. Suppression. Elliptical speech as aesthetic principle. A film in which all the important things appear to take place off camera.But my choice of long takes does not stem from this fact.Working with long takes was not a logical decision. I have always thought it was a natural choice. A need to incorporate natural time in space, as unity of space and time. A need for the so-called “dead time” between action and expectation of

action, which is usually eliminated by the editor’s scissors, to function musically, like pauses.A concept of the shot as a living cell which inhales, delivers the main word and exhales. A fascinating and dangerous choice which continues to the present day.

I have been working with the same team of collaborators since the time

I began.They know me, I know them. With the years they have become my family.They often make me angry when we work; I miss them when I don’t see them.I feel uncertain when a new technician joins the team, as though everything depends on him.I talk to them about my plans and my uncertainties. So many years have gone by and still the same agitation, the same uncertainty, the same need for us to be close, holding our breath, waiting for the end of the shot.

Voyages, partings, wanderings.A car, a photographer friend

driving in silence and the road.Very often I think that my only home, the only place where I feel a sense of equilibrium, a peace of mind, is sitting next to my friend who’s driving. The open window, the landscape flitting past.Images are born during these journeys. I don’t have to keep notes.They are born with their silhouettes, with their colours, with their style, very often with their camera

movements as well, with their aesthetic balances, with their light.The hundreds of photographs serve as memory. But nothing ends before the film is shot.During the shooting of the film everything is recreated on the basis of the new reality.Actors, unforeseen events, fortunate or unfortunate, sudden ideas.And yet the beginning has preceded it. Long before. From the time when out of nothing, the idea for the film is born.

Almost thirty years have gone by since my first film.

I could paraphrase Elliot and say:So here I am, in the middle way.My years largely wasted amid the rages of History,still trying to learn to use images.And my every attempt is a wholly new start and a kind of failurebecause we only learn when we no longer have to express ourselves.And so each new venture is a new beginning in the general mess of imprecision of feeling.Undisciplined squads of emotion.A raid on the inarticulate.To recover what has been lost, and found, and lost again.To recover…In my end is my beginning.

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BIOS

Theo Angelopoulos

Born in Athens on April 27, 1935

EDUCATION: University of Athens: Faculty of Law

Sorbonne, Paris France: Literature, Filmology,

Anthropology Institut des Hautes Etudes

Cinematographiques (IDHEC), Paris France: Cinema

Worked as a film critic at Athens newspaper

“Dimokratiki Allaghi” from 1964-1967

FILMS: 35mm

1965 FORMINX STORY, feature, unfinished

1968 THE BROADCAST,(EKPOMPI) short

Critics’ Prize, Thessaloniki Film Festival

1970 RECONSTRUCTION,(ANAPARASTASI)

feature Best Director, Thessaloniki Film

Festival (1971) Best Cinematography,

Thessaloniki Film Festival (1971)

Best Film, Thessaloniki Film Festival (1971)

Best Actress, Thessaloniki Film Festival

(1971) Critics’ Prize, Thessaloniki Film

Festival (1971) Best Foreign Film, Hyeres

Film Festival (1971) Georges Sadoul Award

(1971) Special Mention, FIPRESCI

(Federation Internationale de la Presse

Cinematographique), Berlin (1971)

1972 DAYS OF ‘36, (MERES TOU ’36) feature

Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival

(1973) FIPRESCI Award, Berlin Film

Festival (1973) Best Director, Thessaloniki

Film Festival (1973) Best Cinematography,

Thessaloniki Film Festival (1973)

1975 THE TRAVELLING PLAYERS,

(O THIASSOS) feature Directors’ Fortnight,

Cannes Film Festival (1975) FIPRESCI

Grand Prix, Cannes (1975) Interfilm Award

Berlin «Forum» (1975) Best Film of the

year, Golden Age Award, Brussels (1976)

Best Film of the Year, British Film Institute

(1976) Best Film, Thessaloniki Film Festival

Grand Prix of the Arts, Japan Best Film of

the Year, Japan Best Film in the World

1970-1980, Italian Critics’ Association

FIPRESCI 40th Best Film in the History

of Cinema

1977 THE HUNTERS, (I KYNIGI) feature

Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival

(1977) Golden Hugo Award, Chicago Film

Festival (1978)

1980 MEGALEXANDROS, feature

Gold Lion, Venice Film Festival (1980)

FIPRESCI Award, Venice Film Festival

(1980) New Cinema Award, Venice Film

Festival (1980)

1981 ONE VILLAGE, ONE INHABITANT,

(HORIO ENA, KATIKOS ENAS)

documentary

1982 ATHENS, RETURN TO ACROPOLIS

(ATHINA, EPISTROFI STIN AKROPOLI)

television documentary

1984 VOYAGE TO CYTHERA, (TAKSIDI STA

KYTHIRA) feature Best Screenplay, Cannes

Film Festival (1984) FIPRESCI Award,

Cannes Film Festival (1984) Critics Award,

Rio Film Festival

1986 THE BEEKEEPER, (O MELISSOKOMOS)

feature Official Selection, Venice Film

Festival

1988 LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST,

(TOPIO STIN OMICHLI) feature

Silver Lion, Best Director, Venice Film

Festival (1988) FIPRESCI, Venice Film

Festival (1988) CICAE Art House Prize

(1988) Pasinetti Award (1988) Golden Hugo

Award, Chicago Film Festival (1988) Silver

Plaque for Best Cinematography, Chicago

Film Festival (1988) Felix Award, Best

European Film of the Year (1989)

1991 THE SUSPENDED STEP OF THE STORK,

(TO METEORO VIMA TOU PELARGOU)

feature Official Selection, Cannes Film

Festival (1991)

1995 ULYSSES’ GAZE, (TO VLEMMA TOU

ODYSSEA) feature Grand Prix, Cannes Film

Festival (1995) FIPRESCI Award, Cannes

Film Festival (1995) Felix Award, Best

European Film of the Year (1995)

1998 ETERNITY AND A DAY, (MIA EONIOTITA

KAI MIA MERA) feature

Gold Palm Award, Cannes Film Festival

(1998) Ecumenical Prize, Cannes Film

Festival (1998)

2004 TRILOGY: THE WEEPING MEADOW,

(TRILOGIA: TO LIVADI POU DAKRIZI)

feature Official Selection, Berlinale 2004

2008 THE DUST OF TIME,

(I SKONI TOU CHRONOU) feature

HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS:

1985 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,

by the Cultural Ministry of France

1992 Chevalier de la Legion d’honneur, by the

President of the French Republic

1995 Docteur Honoris Causa, from «l’Universite

Libre de Bruxelles», Belgium

1997 Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,

Centre National de la Cinematographie,

Department of Arts and Letters, France

1999 Officier de la Legion d’honneur, by the

President of the French Republic

1999 Docteur Honoris Causa, from « l’Universite

Paris X Nanterre », France

2001 Docteur Honoris Causa, from the University

of Essex, England

2004 Docteur Honoris Causa, from «l’ Université

Stendhal-Grenoble3», France

2005 Grande Officiale del Ordine al Merito della

Reppublica Italiana, Italy

2007 Docteur Honoris Causa, from the University

of Sheffield, England

2008 Docteur Honoris Causa, from “Universita di

Roma”, Italy

2008 Docteur Honoris Causa, from “The

University of West Macedonia”, Greece

Willem Dafoe Actor

In 1979, Willem Dafoe was given a small role in

Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate from which he was

fired. His first feature role came shortly after in

Kathryn Bigelow's The Loveless. From there, he went

on to perform in over 60 films - in Hollywood

(Spiderman, The English Patient, Finding Nemo,

Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Clear and Present

Danger, White Sands, Mississippi Burning, Streets of

Fire) and in independent cinema in the U.S. (The

Clearing, Animal Factory, Basquiat, The Boondock

Saints, American Psycho) and abroad (von Trier's

Manderlay, Yim Ho's Pavillion of Women, Yurek

Bogayevicz's Edges of the Lord, Wenders' Far Away so

Close, and Brian Gilbert's Tom & Viv).

He has chosen projects for diversity of roles and

opportunities to work with strong directors. He has

worked in the films of Wes Anderson The Life Aquatic,

Martin Scorsese The Aviator, The Last Tempation of

Christ, Paul Schrader Auto Focus, Affliction, Light

Sleeper, The Walker, David Cronenberg Existenz, Abel

Ferrara New Rose Hotel, David Lynch Wild at Heart,

William Friedkin To Live and Die in LA, and Oliver

Stone Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon.

He was nominated twice for the Academy Award

Platoon and Shadow of the Vampire and once for the

Golden Globe. Among other nominations and awards,

he received an LA Film Critics Award and an

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Independent Spirit Award.

Recent projects include Anamorph, Mr. Bean's

Holiday, Spike Lee's Inside Man, Paul Weitz's

American Dreamz, the Nobuhiro Suwa segment of

Paris, Je t'aime and Giada Colagrande's Before It Had

a Name (which was co written by Mr. Dafoe).

Upcoming films include Lars Von Trier's Anti Christ,

Fireflies in the Garden starring opposite Julia Roberts,

Christian Carion's Farewell, Theo Angelopoulos' The

Dust of Time, Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected, Abel

Ferrara's Go Go Tales, Paul Weitz's Cirque du Freak,

Wes Anderson's The Fantastic Mr. Fox and the

Lionsgate's Daybreakers co-starring with Ethan

Hawke. Dafoe is one of the founding members of The

Wooster Group, the New York based experimental

theatre collective. He has created and performed in

the group's work from 1977 thru 2005, both in the

U.S. and internationally.

Bruno GanzActor

One of Europe’s most honored stage and screen

actors, Bruno Ganz has performed in both mediums

since 1961, when he sojourned from his native

Switzerland to Berlin. In 1970, he co-founded (with

Peter Stein) the theatre company, “Schaubuehne of

Berlin.” By the mid-70s he was evolving an

international cinema career, aided by fluency in the

five major European languages. The artist’s break-

through film was Eric Rohmer’s The Marquise of O

(1976), in which he played a dashing count. He was

declared Best Actor of the year by the German Film

Awards and the film itself received the Cannes Film

Festival’s Special Jury Prize.) Ganz soon became a

leading figure of the New German Cinema in such

films as The Wild Duck (1976), Knife in the Head

(1978) and Nosferatu (1979). His first English

language film was the 1978 thriller, The Boys from

Brazil.

Ganz enjoys a close creative partnership with director

Wim Wenders, with whom he has made three notable

films, The American Friend (1977), opposite Dennis

Hopper; Wings of Desire (1987), in which he

memorably played the lovelorn angel; and Far Away,

So Close! (1993).

More recently, the actor’s career reached new heights

with two hugely successful but utterly different films,

Silvio Soldini’s Bread and Tulips (2000), and The

Downfall (2005), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel.

The Italian film, a poignant fable about love and

fulfillment, brought Ganz the David di Donatello

Award and Swiss Film Award as Best Actor. He was

equally honored for The Downfall and made history as

the first German-speaking actor to portray Hitler. The

film, hugely successful, was an Oscar nominee and

Ganz himself was voted Best Actor at the European

Film Awards, among others.

In 1996, Ganz was honored with the distinguished

Iffland-Ring, given for two centuries to the most

important actor in German-speaking theatre. He

further proved this honor was well deserved in 2000

when he played the lead in a 13-hour stage

performance of Goethe’s Faust I & II. Ganz continues

to explore a variety of intriguing roles in international

productions, including the Japanese film, Baruto no

Gakuen and Vitus, the much-admired Swiss Oscar

entry for 2006. He was personally honored with a

retrospective tribute at the 2006 Montreal World Film

Festival. He will appear in one film in 2007, Der

Baader-Meinhof Komplex, directed by Uli Edel. In

2008 he will appear in the The Dust of Time, a new

film by legendary Greek auteur Theo Angelopoulos.

Michel Piccoli Actor

Michel Piccoli (born December 27, 1925) is a French

actor who has worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre

Melville, Jean-Luc Godard (in le Mépris, where he

formed a legendary couple with Brigitte Bardot),

Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy, Claude Sautet, Louis

Malle, Agnès Varda, Leos Carax, Luis Buñuel, Costa-

Gavras, Alfred Hitchcock, Marco Ferreri, Jacques

Rivette, Otar Iosseliani and Jacques Doillon.

He is an extremely versatile actor who can take on all

kinds of different roles, from seducer to cop to

gangster, with a predilection in the 70s and 80s for

ambiguous roles in which he excels.

He has appeared in more than 170 movies.

He was born in Paris to a musical family; his mother

was a pianist and his father a violinist. He was

married three times, first to Éléonore Hirt, then for

eleven years to the singer Juliette Gréco and finally to

Ludivine Clerc. He has one daughter by his first

marriage, Anne-Cordélia.

Filmography

Destinées (1954) La mort en ce jardin (1956) Le

Doulos (1962) Contempt (Le Mépris, 1963) Diary of a

Chambermaid (1964) La Chance et l'Amour (1964)

The Sleeping Car Murders (1965) Dom Juan ou le

Festin de Pierre (1965, TV) Is Paris Burning? (1966)

La Curée (The Game is Over) (1966) La Guerre est

finie (1966) Belle de jour (A Bela da Tarde, 1967)

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967) Benjamin

(1968) Danger: Diabolik (1968) La Chamade (1968)

Dillinger Is Dead (Dillinger è morto, 1969) La Voie

lactée (1969) Topaz (1969) Les Choses de la vie

(1970) Max et les ferrailleurs (1971) The Discreet

Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Le charme discret de la

bourgeoisie, 1972) La Grande Bouffe (The Grande

Bouffe or Blow-Out, 1973) Themroc (1973) Le

fantôme de la liberté (1974) Le Trio infernal (1974)

Vincent, Paul, François, et les Autres (1974) Sept

morts sur ordonnance (1975) La Dernière femme

(1976)

Mado (1976) Des enfants gatés (1977) That Obscure

Object of Desire (1977) Atlantic City (1980) Espion

Lève-toi (1981) La Fille prodigue (1981) Une étrange

affaire (1981) La Passante du Sans-Souci (1982)

Passion (1982) Une chambre en ville (1982) Le Prix

du Danger (1983) Viva la vie (1984) La Diagonale du

Fou (1984) Péril en la demeure (1985) Partir, revenir

(1985) Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur (1986)

Le Paltoquet (1986) La Puritaine (1986) Mala Sangre

de Leos Carax(1986) Milou en Mai (1990) La Belle

Noiseuse (1991) Le Visionarium (The Timekeeper,

1992) Les Cent et une Nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)

Passion in the Desert (1997) Gardens in Autumn

(2006) Belle Toujours (2007) De la guerre (2008) The

Dust of Time (2008)

Irene JacobActress

After spending her childhood in Switzerland, Irène

Jacob returned to her native France in 1984 and

enrolled in the Rue Blache School in Paris. She made

her film debut in 1987 in Au revoir les enfants

(Goodbye, children) directed by Louis Malle in which,

despite her short role, she was noticed by Krzysztof

Kieslowsky who gave her the lead in his 1991 film La

double vie de Véronique (The double of life of

Veronique) for which she son the Best Actress Award

at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1993 her second

Kieslowsky film Trois couleurs: rouge (Three colors:

Red) won her a European Film Award Best Actress

nomination, huge international recoginition and a host

of offers.

Irène Jacob has worked with celebrated directors on

both sides of the Atlantic, including Michelangelo

Antonioni, Oliver Parker, Slavomir Idziak, Eldar

Riazanov, Mark Peploe, Hugh Hudson, Stuart Baird,

George Hickenlooper, Hilka Jarvilaturu, Serge Le

Perron and Rémi Waterhouse.

Since her stage debut in Michelle Venard’s “Un reve

excellent” she has also pursued a distinguished

career in the theater and in 1999 was acclaimed by

both audiences and critics for her performance in

“Resonances”, directed by Irina Brook. In 2000 she

appeared in the title role in “Madame Melville” ,

directed by Richard Nelson where she co-starred with

Macaulay Culkin.

Filmography

2008 The dust of time (directed by Theo

Angelopoulos) - Eleni, 2007 Nessuna qualità agli eroi

(Fallen Heroes) – Anne, 2007 The Inner Life of

Martin Frost – Claire Martin, 2006 La Educación de

las hadas (The Education of Fairies) – Ingrid, 2004

Nouvelle-France (Battle of the Brave) – Angélique de

Roquebrune, 2004 Automne (Autumn) – Michelle,

2004 The Pornographer: A Love Story (2004) 2003

Nés de la mère du monde [TV] – Clara Sidowski,

2003 La Légende de Parva – voice of La mère de

Parva, 2002 Mille millièmes (The Landlords) – Julie,

2001 Londinium (Fourplay) – Fiona Delgrazia, 2001

Lettre d'une inconnue (Letter from an Unknown

Woman) [TV] – unknown woman, 2001 Léaud

l'unique [TV] 2000 L'Affaire Marcorelle (The

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Marcorelle Affair) – Agneska, 1999 History Is Made

at Night (Spy Games) – Natasha Scriabina/Anna

Belinka,

1999 My Life So Far - Aunt Heloise, 1999 The Big

Brass Ring – Cela Brandin, 1999 Cuisine chinoise -

Patricia, 1998 Cuisine américaine (American Cuisine

(film)) – Gabrielle Boyer,

1998 U.S. Marshals – Marie Bineaux, 1998 Jack's

potes, 1997 Incognito – Prof. Marieke van den

Broeck, 1995 Othello – Desdemona, 1995 Faire un

film pour moi c'est vivre, 1995 All Men Are Mortal -

Regina, 1995 Beyond the Clouds (Al di là delle

nuvole) – the girl, 1995 Fugueuses (Runaways) –

Prune, 1995 Victory – Alma, 1994 Three Colors:

Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge) – Valentine Dussaut,

1993 Predskazaniye (The Prediction) – Lyuda , 1993

The Secret Garden – Mrs. Lennox/Lilias Craven,

1993 Claude (Trusting Beatrice) – Beatrice,

1992 Enak – Lucille Spaak, 1992 Le Moulin de

Daudet (Daudet's Windmill) – Mme Daudet,

1991 The Double Life of Véronique (La Double vie

de Véronique) – Weronika/Véronique, 1991 Le

Secret de Sarah Tombelaine (The Secret of Sarah

Tombelaine) – Sarah, 990 La Veillée (The Van Gogh

Wake) – Johanna, 1989 Nick chasseur de têtes [TV]

1989 Les Mannequins d'osier – Marie, 1989 Erreur

de jeunesse – Anne, 1988 La Bande des quatre (The

Gang of Four) – Marine, 1987 Au revoir, les enfants

(Goodbye, Children) – Mlle Davenne.

Awards

2002 Krzysztof Kieslowski Award (Camerimage),

1995 BAFTA Film Award Best Actress Nomination

for Three Colors: Red. 1995 César Best Actress

Award Nomination for Three Colors: Red. 1994 Nika

Award Best Actress Nomination for Predskazaniye.

1993 Sant Jordi Best Foreign Actress Award for The

Double Life of Véronique. 1992 César Best Actress

Award Nomination for The Double Life of Véronique.

1991 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for

The Double Life of Véronique.

Christiane PaulActress

Christiane Paul has appeared in more than 30 feature

films and telefilms. Her breakthrough came in the

telefilms Life is all you get and Workaholic as well as

with the feature films In July and Marlene. She has

won the Bayerischer Filmpreis, the Goldene Kamera

and the Max Ophpüls Prize. In 2008 she appeared in

Iwanow by Anton Tschechow at the Schauspielhaus

Düsseldorf. She made her stage debut in 2004 in Der

Auftrag by Heiner Müller. Christiane Paul is a doctor

of medicine and received her license to practise in

2002.

Films (Selection)

2008 THE DUST OF TIME Theo Angelopoulos.

LIPPEL’S DREAM Lars Büchel.

LAURA - OB IHR WOLLT ODER NICHT Ben

Verbong. LARA Bernd Schadewald.

2007 VORNE IST VERDAMMT WEIT WEG Thomas

Heinemann. THE WAVE Dennis Gansel.

2006 EIN VERLOCKENDES ANGEBOT Tim

Trageser. COPACABANA Xaver Schwarzenberger.

WIXXER II Thomas Heinemann.

2005 THE NIGHT OF THE GREAT FLOOD

Raymond Lay.DIE TOTE VOM DEICH Matti

Geschonneck. REINE FORMSACHE Ralf Hüttner.

2004 NO SWEAT Eoin Moore.KÜSS MICH HEXE

Diethard Küster.

2003 AUSSER KONTROLLE Christian Görlitz.

2001 I’M THE FATHER Dani Levy.

1999 IN JULY Fatih Akin. FRIENDS/TRUST ME

Martin Eigler. MARLENE Josef Vilsmaier.

1998 HEADS YOU WIN, TAILS YOU LOSE Hans-

Günther Bücking.

1996 KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR Thomas

Jahn.

1995 WORKAHOLIC (BAYERISCHER FILMPREIS)

Sharon von Wietersheim.

LIFE IS ALL YOU GET Wolfgang Becker.

1994 EX (MAX OPHÜLS PREIS) Mark Schlichter.

1993 UNTER DER MILCHSTRASSE M.X. Oberg.

1992 ICH UND CHRISTINE Peter Stripp.

1991 DEUTSCHFIEBER Niklaus Schilling.

Andreas SinanosCinematographer

Born in Andravida, Greece.From 1975 to1983 he

worked as assistant cameraman.Since 1983, Andreas

Sinanos has worked as a free lance cinematographer

ona number of television series, telefilms,

documentaries and several shorts. He has done the

cinematography on the following features:

HAPPY HOMECOMING, COMRADE [1985] by Lefteris

Xanthopoulos. Locarno International Film Festival 1986.

OLGA ROBARDS [1987] by Christos Vakalopoulos.

Best Cinematography Award, Thessaloniki Film Festival

1987. DOUZE MOTS OU L' HERITAGE DE LA

CHOUETTE [1988-99] by Chris Marker.

THE CROSSING [1989] by Vassiliki Iliopoulou.

Best Cinematography, Ministry of Culture Award.

IMPOSSIBLE ENCOUNTER [1989] by Takis Antonopoulos.

MASTER OF THE SHADOWS [1990-91] by Lefteris

Xanthopoulos. Cannes 1991, Quinzaine Des Realizateurs.

Best Cinematography Award, Thessaloniki Film Festival.

EQUINOX [1991] by Nikos Cornelios.

Best Cinematography Award, Thessaloniki Film Festival

1991. THE SUSPENDED STEP OF THE STORK [1991]

by Theo Angelopoulos. Cinematography shared both with

Yorgos Arvanitis. Official Selection, Cannes

1991. AVETIS [1992] by Don Askarjan. UP DOWN AND

SIDEWAYS [1992] by Michael Cacoyannis. DEAD LIQUER

[1993] by Giorgos Karipides. BORDERLINE [1994] by

Panayotis Karkanevatos. ULYSSES' GAZE [1995] by Theo

Angelopoulos. Cinematography shared with Giorgos

Arvanitis. Official Selection, Cannes 1955. TOWARDS

FREEDOM [1996] by Charis Papadopoulos.

ETERNITY AND A DAY [1997-98] by Theo Angelopoulos.

Cinematography shared with Giorgos Arvanitis. Official

Selection, Cannes 1998. Palme d’Or.

PASSEURS DE REVES [1999] by Hiner Saleem [France].

ANNA’S SUMMER [2000] by Jeanine Meerapfel.[Germany,

Spain,Greece.]

ABSOLITUDE [2001] by Hiner Saleem [France]

THE WEEPING MEADOW 1 [2002-2003] by Theo

Angelopoulos [Greece, France, Italy] EFA nomination for

Best Cinematography 2004.

FLEUR D’ OUBLIE [2004] by Selma Baccar [Tunisy]

TRUE BLUE [2005] by Yannis Diamantopoulos [Greece]

Best Cinematogrphy Award, Thessaloniki Film Festival

2005 DOL [2005] by Hiner Saleem [Kurdistan d’ Iraq,

France] THE DUST OF TIME (2008) by Theo Angelopoulos

[Greece, Italy, Germany, Russia]

Eleni KaraindrouComposer

Born in Greece, she began by studying piano and

music theory at the Hellenic Conservatory in Athens,

then went on to study history and archaeology at the

University of Athens and ethnomusicology and

orchestration in Paris (Sorbonne and Scuola

Cantorum).

In 1975, she started to compose music for films and

the theatre. Eighteen feature films, thirty-five plays

and eleven television series and telefilms feature

music by Eleni Karaindrou.

She has collaborated most often with Greek directors

but has also worked with Chris Marker (The

Inheritance of the Owl, TF1), Jules Dassin (Turgenev’s

One Month in the Country and Chekhov’s The Seagull

at the National Theatre and Arthur Miller’s Death of a

Saleman at the Athinaion Theatre) and Margarethe

Von Trotta (L’Africana, nominee at the 1990 Venice

Film Festival). She has composed original music for

the last six films of Theo Angelopoulos: Voyage to

Cythera, The Beekeeper, Landscape in the Mist, The

Suspended Step of the Stork, Ulysses’ Gaze and

Eternity and a Day. Since 1982, she has won four

awards in Greece for her music for the films Rosa by

Cristoforo Christofis, Happy Homecoming, Comrade

by Lefteris Xanthopoulos, The Price of Love by Tonia

Marketaki and The Beekeeper by Theo Angelopoulos.

In 1992 she was presented with the Fellini Award by

Europa Cinema (Italy) for her work as a whole. She

has given a series of enormously popular concerts in

the ancient theatres of Herod Atticus in Athens

(1988) and Epidaurus (1993) as well as in the great

auditorium of the Athens Concert Hall (19, 20, 21

February, 1998) Her record albums have been

released by EMI, MINOS and LYRA in Greece,

SARAVAH and MILAN in France and, since 1990, by

ECM (Munich).

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Dionyssis Fotopoulos

Art Director

Dionyssis Fotopoulos was born in Kalamata, in the

Peloponnese. He has been working in theater and

films since 1967 and has designed the sets and

scenery for over 40 films and over 300

plays in Greece and abroad. He has won many

international awards for his work in the theater

and in films.

Andrea CrisantiProduction Designer

From 1959 till 1967 he worked both as art director

and costume designer on over 30 theatrical

productions. At the same time he has been assistant

of some of the greatest Italian production designers

such as: Mario Chiari, Mario Garbuglia, Gianni

Polidori, Enzo Del Prato. Since 1962 he has been

working mainly as production designer for the

cinema. During the last 10 years he has been

teaching “art direction” at the C.S.C. (Centro

Sperimentale di Cinematografia) in Rome. From 1996

till 2005 he served as President of the A.S.C. (Italian

Association of production designers, costume

designers, set decorators)

AWARDS:

Nomination for David di Donatello Award

–Nomination Bafta Award –Winner of Platea d’Oro

(vI) –Winner of Ciak Oro Award – Winner of 2 David

di Donatello –Winner of Valentino d’Oro 2000 –

Winner of Nastro d’Argento .

LIST OF THE MAIN PRODUCTIONS HE HAS

WORKED ON AS “PRODUCTION DESIGNER”

1962 Maciste all’inferno Riccardo Freda

1968 I sette fratelli Cervi Gianni Puccini

1970 Uomini contro Francesco Rosi

1971 Giù la testa Sergio Leone

1972 Il caso Mattei Francesco Rosi

1973 Gli eroi Duccio Tessari

1973 Lucky Luciano Francesco Rosi

1974 Codice d’amore orientale Piero Vivarelli

1974 Processo per direttissima L.De Caro

1976 Bluff Sergio Corrucci

1976 La linea del fiume A. Scavarla

1976 Cadaveri eccellenti Francesco Rosi

1976 Il Signor Robinson Sergio Corrucci

1977 Ecco noi, per esempio Sergio Corrucci

1977 Tre tigri contro tre tigri Steno / Corrucci

1979 Gramsci TV movie E. Macello

1979 Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli Francesco

Rosi

1980 Salto nel vuoto Marco Bellocchio

1980 L’avvertimento Damiano Damiani

1980 Il cappotto di astrakan Marco Vicario

1981 I miracolini F. Massaro

1981 Prima che sia troppo presto Enzo De Caro

1981 Tre fratelli (nC) Francesco Rosi

1982 Più bello di così si muore Pasquale Festa

Campanile

1982 Borotalco (nC) Carlo Verdone

1982 Identificazione di una donna

Michelangelo Antonioni

1982 No grazie il caffè mi rende nervoso

Ludovico Gasperini

1983 Nostalghia Andrei Tarkowsky

1984 Les anges Ridha Behi

1985 Il diavolo in corpo Marco Bellocchio

1985 La Piovra 2 Florestano Vancini

1986 La memoire tatouèe Ridha Behi

1987 Cronaca di una morte annunciata

Francesco Rosi

1987 Luci lontane A. Chiesa

1988 Il giovane Toscanini Franco Zeffirelli

1988 Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (nD)

Giuseppe Tornatore

1989 Dimenticare Palermo Francesco Rosi

1990 Stanno tutti bene Giuseppe Tornatore

1991 Il ladro di bambini (nC-vI) Gianni Amelio

1992 Les hirondelles ne meurent pas…

Ridha Behi

1993 Colpo di luna Alberto Simone

1994 Una pura formalità (vC-vE)

Giuseppe Tornatore

1996 La tregua Francesco Rosi

1997 Vado e torno Vittorio Sindoni

1998 Hurlyburly Theatre Francesca De Sapio

1998 Excellent Cadavers Ricky Tognazzi

1998 Non lasciamoci più Vittorio Sindoni

1999 Vipera Sergio Citti

2000 Detective per caso Wanna Paoli

2001 The emperor’s new clothes Allan Taylor

2001 Il fuoco del sole Giancarlo Zagni

2001 Il Consiglio d’Egitto (vN) Emidio Greco

2002 Fratella e sorello Sergio Citti

2002 L’Avvocato De Gregorio Pasquale Squitieri

2002 Come tu mi vuoi Pasquale Squitieri

2002 La finestra di fronte Ferzan Ozpetek

2003 Sotto falso nome Roberto Andò

2003 L’albero di Natale Stefano Reali

2004 La Contessa di Castiglione Josèe Dayan

2004 Cuore Sacro (vC) Ferzan Ozpetek

2005 Arrivederci amore,ciao (nC) Michele Soavi

2006 La Masseria delle allodole Paolo & Vittorio

Taviani

2006Ma l’amore ...si T. Zancardi

2007 L'uomo privato E.Greco

2007 K il bandito M.Donovan

2008 Il sangue dei vinti M.Soavi

200 Presenze A.Crisanti

2008 The Dust of Time Theo Angelopoulos

Petros Markarisscreenwriter

Petros Markaris was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He

started his career as a playwright and translator of

plays. Now he is working as a screenwriter and

novelist, while he still continues to translate

occasionally. He is also a lecturer of drama theory at

the Theatre Department of the University of

Thessaloniki. His novels have been translated into 15

languages

Novels

The late-night news, Zone Defense, Che committed

suicide, The main shareholder, A long time ago.

Short Stories

Balkan Blues.

Screenplays

Co-screenwriter with the Greek filmmaker Theo

Angelopoulos in: Days of 36, Megalexandros, The

suspended step of the stork, Ulysses’ gaze, Eternity

and a day, The dust of time.

Plays

The story of Ali Redjo, The tale of king Ubu (after

Jarry), The guests, Like horses.

Diary

The diary of an eternity (the diary on the script of of

the film Eternity and a day by Theo Angelopoulos)

Translations

Faust, by Goethe (parts one and two), plays by

Bertolt Brecht (Mother Courage and her children,

Galileo, The Caucasian chalk circle and others) and

also plays by Frank Wedekind, Arthur Schnitzler,

Thomas Bernhard etc.

Tonino Guerrascreenwriter

Tonino (Antonio) Guerra is one of the most important

screenwriters in the history of film making. He has

worked with some of the greatest Italian film

directors, including Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico

Fellini and Vittorio De Sica. He has also worked with

preeminent European directors, including Russia's

Andrei Tarkovsky and Greece's Theo Angelopoulos.

What separates Guerra from other screenwriters is his

unique approach to the working relationship between

writer and director. According to one biography,

Guerra acts as more than just collaborator on his

projects, but as a guide/confessor to the director. In

the end, he becomes a co-creator, enabling the

director to reach further and deeper into his vision.

His flexibility and ego sacrificing technique have

helped give birth to some of the world's cinematic

masterpieces.

Guerra was born in Sant'Arcangelo di Romagna,

Emilia-Romagna, Italy, south of Ravenna on March

16, 1920. He started his career by writing short

stories and poetry and his first screenplay was written

with the collaboration of Elio Petri and Giuseppe De

Santis. Men With Wolves was directed by De Santis in

1957. In 1960, Guerra began working with

Michelangelo Antonioni with whom he created some

of the most important and landmark films. Their first

project, L'Avventura nearly caused a riot at the

Cannes Film Festival but was awarded the Grand

Prize despite the controversy.

Many critics and film historians will tell you that

L'Avventura changed filmmaking forever.

Guerra continued working with Antonioni throughout

the early 60's and was instrumental in the creation of

The Alienation Trilogy. This trilogy is probably the

most important contribution of Antonioni's to cinema

and it is difficult to distinguish between screenwriter

and director. Guerra continued to work with Antonioni

throughout his career, but also began a long series of

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collaborations with other famous directors. Perhaps

his most commercially successful movie is Fellini's

Amarcord, for which he was awarded an Academy

Award for best screenplay (1975).

Nominated for another two Oscars (Blowup, 1966 and

Casanova ’70, 1965) Guerra has won numerous

awards over the years including one for best

screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival (Voyage to

Cythera, 1984) and the Silver St. George at the

Moscow Film Festival for his contribution to World

Cinema.

Filmography

The dust of time (2008) Um ano mais longo (2006)

Eros (2004) Trilogy: The weeping meadow (2004) The

Chimp (2001) Bibo per sempre (2000) Tierra del

fuego (1999) Eternity and a Day (1998) Marcello's

Secret (1997) Porto Santo (1997) The Truce (1998)

Ulysses' Gaze (1995) Beyond the Clouds (1996)

White Feast (1994) Golem, le jardin pétrifié (1993)

The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991) The Obscure

Illness (1990) Journey of Love (1990) Everybody's

Fine (1991) Night Sun (1990)

Burro (1989) La Femme de mes amours (1988)

The Sparrow's Fluttering (1988) Landscape in the

Mist (1988) Good Morning, Babylon (1987)

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987) The Beekeeper

(1986) Ginger and Fred (1986)

Henry IV (1984) Chaos (1984) Voyage to Cythera

(1984) Carmen (1984) Nostalghia (1983) Tempo di

viaggio (1983) And the Ship Sails On (1983)

The Night of San Lorenzo (1982) Identification of a

Woman (1982) Three Brothers (1981) The Mystery of

Oberwald (1980) Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)

Tigers in Lipstick (1985) Butterfly on the Shoulder

(1978) Dear Michael (1976)

Sex with a Smile (1976) The Context (1976)

Illustrious Corpses (1976) Amarcord (1974)

Lucky Luciano (1974) Andy Warhol's Young

Frankenstein (1974) The Mattei Affair (1972)

Descubrimiento del mayor túnel submarino (1972)

The Sin (1971) White Sister (1971) Giochi particolari

(1970) Many Wars Ago (1970)

Sunflower (1970) Zabriskie Point (1970) In Search of

Gregory(1969) The Uninvited (1969)

Yes Sir (1969) A Quiet Place in the Country (1969)

Colpo di sole (1968) Ghosts - Italian Style (1968) A

Place for Lovers (1969) Cinderella: Italian Style

(1967) The Wild Eye (1967) The Unchained (1967)

Special Code: Assignment Lost Formula (1966) The

Queens (1966)

Gideon and Samson (1966) Blowup (1966)

The 10th Victim (1965) Casanova '70 (1965)

Countersex (1964) Woman Is a Wonderful Thing

(1964) The Naked Hours (1964) Saul and David

(1964) Marriage Italian-Style (1964) Red Desert

(1964) The Secret Seven (1964) Beautiful Eyes (1964)

Medusa Against the Son of Hercules (1963) The

Empty Canvas (1964) L'Eclisse (1962) The Assassin

(1965) La Notte (1960) L'Avventura (1960) Piece of

the Sky (1959) Il Terribile Teodoro (1958) Road a

Year Long (1957) The Wolves (1956)

Vittorio SodanoMake-up artist.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Makeup

for his work in Apocalypto (2006).

Filmography

Io, Don Giovanni (2009) (post-production) (makeup

designer)

Trilogia II: I skoni tou hronou (2008) (makeup effects

designer)

... aka The Dust of Time

Divo, Il (2008) (makeup designer) (prosthetic makeup

designer)

Nascondiglio, Il (2007) (special makeup designer)

... aka The Hideout

"Capo dei capi, Il" (2007) TV mini-series (makeup

designer) (prosthetic makeup designer)

Apocalypto (2006) (makeup designer)

... aka Mel Gibson's Apocalypto

The Black Dahlia (2006) (special effects makeup)

Tre donne morali (2006) (key makeup artist)

Liscio (2006) (makeup designer)

... aka The Ball

Fade to Black (2006/I) (makeup designer)

Casanova (2005) (makeup artist) (prosthetics applier:

Charlie Cox)

Empire des loups, L' (2005) (key makeup artist)

... aka The Empire of Wolves

Imperium: Nerone (2004) (TV) (makeup artist)

... aka Imperium: Nero

Siero della vanità, Il (2004) (makeup designer)

... aka The Vanity Serum

Amore ritorna, L' (2004) (makeup designer)

... aka Love Returns

Part Time (2004) (TV) (makeup designer)

Ricordati di me (2003) (key makeup artist)

... aka Remember Me

Papa buono, Il (2003) (TV) (makeup artist)

... aka The Good Pope: Pope John XXIII

Ma che colpa abbiamo noi (2003) (key makeup artist)

... aka What Fault Is It of Ours?

Più bel giorno della mia vita, Il (2002) (makeup

designer)

... aka The Best Day of My Life

"Incompreso" (2002) TV mini-series (makeup

designer)

Tre mogli (2001) (makeup artist)

... aka Three Wives

Fate ignoranti, Le (2001) (key makeup artist)

... aka The Ignorant Fairies

Controvento (2000) (makeup designer)

... aka Against the Wind

Prima del tramonto (1999) (makeup designer)

Madri, Le (1999) (TV) (makeup designer)

Fratello minore, Il (1996) (makeup designer)

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PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

«A» An American filmmaker of Greek origin in the middle of a breakdown, « A » is about to direct a film about his life and the life of his parents. In the course of his film, he progres-sively ceases to « live » in the « reality » and becomes a part of the fictional « reality » of his film. It is in this universe that he will live his last days with his family. In this “elsewhere” he will “lose” his daughter, Eleni, the offspring of a devastated family, who disappears. Her figure is the link between the two « worlds » and she is the one who bears the burden of an onerous past.

SPYROS «A»’s father, he has been in love with Eleni ever since they met one night during a dance by the river outside Thessaloniki. He leaves for the United States and loses contact with her because in the meantime Eleni has been arrested for political reasons. Since then, he has been looking for her everywhere. He finds her on the day of Stalin’s death (1953) in a small town in Kazakhstan but the Soviet police arrest Spyros and send Eleni to Siberia. It is thanks to this meeting that “A” will be born nine months later. Again, they lose contact. When they find each other again in the United States, twenty years later, Spyros is a married man but he will leave his wife for Eleni. The classic figure of an exile, Spyros will almost never be able to live with Eleni. After the death of his wife, he concludes the film with an action that is open to various interpretations: he crosses the threshold of A’s apartment holding the hand of his grand-daughter, Eleni.

ELENI Shortly after the dance by the river with Spyros and his departure for the America, Eleni is arrested. She manages to escape from prison and seeks refuge in the Soviet Union. It is there that Spyros finds her after searching for her for three years. After her arrest in Kazakhstan and her separation from Spyros, from Siberia where she has been exiled, she sees “A”, the young son who was born as a result of her meeting with Spyros that night in Kazakhstan, leaving for Moscow. The heroine of a Greek tragedy, she is the emblematic figure of the film and her death seems to be the last breath of a collective history full of painful episodes and tribulations.

JACOB German Jew, Spyros’ friend, in love with Eleni until the end of his life, he is also con-demned, not to live alone but worse than that, to live with the one he can’t have. Eleni’s com-panion for a long time, he accompanies her everywhere, only to see her reconcile with Spyros at the end. The final dance marks his decision to kill himself. When he jumps into the water of the river, he leaves behind only an umbrella: a dark sign, a sign of loneliness; Jacob disap-pears just like he lived: alone.

CAST

Willem Dafoe A

Bruno Ganz Jacob

Michel Piccoli Spyros

Irène Jacob Eleni

Christiane Paul Helga

Reni Pittaki Music ComposerKostas Apostolidis Party SecretaryAlexandros Milonas Man on the TrainNorman Mozzato Hotel ManagerAlessia Franchin “A” 's Secretary Valentina Carnelutti Hotel ReceptionistTiziana Pfiffner Little EleniChantel Brathwaite Little Eleni’s GirlfriendHerbert Meurer DoctorSviatoslav Yshakov GrandfatherVladimir Bogenko Conservatory DirectorIvan Nemtsev German Organ Specialist

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Scriptwriter - DirectorTheo Angelopoulos

Script consultantsTonino GuerraPetros Markaris

English translationElly Petrides

Director of PhotographyAndreas Sinanos a.f.c

MusicEleni Karaindrou

Art DirectorsAndrea CrisantiDionisis Fotopoulos

Set DesignersAlexander SchererKonstantin Zagorskij

CostumesRegina KhomckayaFrancesca SartoriMartina Schall

Make-up ArtistVittorio Sodano

Hair StylistGiorgio Gregorini

SoundMarinos AthanasopoulosJerome Aghion

Sound MixKostas Varibopiotis

EditingYannis TsitsopoulosGiorgos Chelidonides

Production CoordinatorAnna Angelopoulos

Executive ProducersCostas LambropoulosGiorgos PanagopoulosGuido SimonettiTill Derenbach

Co-producersAmedeo PaganiClaudia PoepselVladimir RepnikovAlexander SkvortsovMikhail Zilberman

ProducerPhoebe Economopoulos

The Songs“All that you want”“The true face of beauty”by 15 50“Eifersucht “ by Barbara Ehwald

Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) orchestra conducted byAlexandros Myrat

Piano SoloistNatalia Michailidou

Vocals byAlexandros MichosMarlain AngelidouChristos MastorasLiana PapalexiAlexandros BalakakisEva Lauka

Copyright 2008Theo Angelopoulos ProductionsGreek Film CentreHellenic Broadcasting Corporation ERT S.A.Classic SrlLichtmeer FilmStudio 217 ARS

ProducerTheo Angelopoulos Film Productions

Co-ProducersGREEK FILM CENTREwith the support of the Hellenic Ministry of CultureHellenic Broadcasting Corporation ERT SANOVASTUDIO217ARSwith the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian FederationCLASSIC SRLwith the support of REGIONE LAZIO / FI.LA.S S.p.a. MiBAC – Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali LICHTMEER FILM Filmstiftung Nordrhein-WestalenDeutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF)ARD Degeto

With the support of the EURIMAGES Fund of the Council of Europe

SponsorsGreek National Tourism OrganizationNational Bank of Greece Theodoros and Gianna AngelopoulosOlympic AirlinesGeneral Secretariat of Attica region Hellenic Public Real Estate CorporationFilmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen

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Editorial Supervision: Evi Lazari,

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