Ulysses' Gaze
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
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Release Date: 10/12/1995
Runtime: 169 minutes
Languages: Albanian, Bulgarian, English, German, Greek, Kurdish, Macedonian, Romanian, Serbian
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
00Production
Companies: Paradis Films, La Générale d'Images, La Sept Cinéma, RAI, Theo Angelopoulos Films, Greek Film Centre, Tele München, Channel 4 Television, MEGA TV
Countries: Greece, France, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Albania
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deepkino
This is a journey film—both internal and external—set across Albania, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Greece. The story follows a director on a quest to find the lost film by the Manakis brothers, purported to be Greece's first motion picture. However, his search leads him not to a cinematic treasure, but to the slow death agony of the Balkans themselves. His journey culminates not in discovery, but in depression, pain, and a profound sense of defeat—a feeling powerfully symbolized by the recurring image of a fragmented statue of Lenin.
