starring
Eva Kotmandiou
Petros Zarkadis
A powerful mixture of private and political drama, shot against the starkly beautiful Greek winter landscape, makes Theodor Angelo poulos's film an unforgettable experience.
This isn't remote, abstract history. You are as much involved in it as you are involved in the story of the family.
(Dilys Powell , SUNDAY TIMES)
Brilliantly choreographed ... beguiling visual magic. (THE SPECTATOR) At the end of nearly four hours you are left still eager and anxious to be told more about these plain people drifted in the eddies of history.
(David Robinson , THE TIMES)
You had better see it and to hell with your posterior.
(Derek Malcolm , THE GUARDIAN)
Written and directed by THEODOR ANGELOPOULOS. Films: page 15 (First showing on British television)
(An interview with Theodor Angelo poulos - Arena: Cinema tomorrow, 3.50)