The Travelling Players (1975)

Original title

Ο θίασος

Directed by

Thodoros Angelopoulos

Genre

drama film, historical film

Country

Greece

Runtime

3h 50m

Rated

12

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 100 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A traveling theater troupe performs a folk play across Greece while real political events unfold from 1939 to 1952. The actors' personal stories mirror the country's historical upheavals.

slow-burnmelancholicepicwearyreflectivepoliticalcontemplativequietly intense

What happens

The Travelling Players (Greek: Ο Θίασος, translit. O Thiasos, "The Troupe") is a 1975 Greek historical drama film written and directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos that traces the history of mid-20th-century Greece from 1939 to 1952. Many critics have described The Travelling Players as Angelopoulos' masterpiece; 16 critics and five directors voted it one of their favorite films in the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound poll. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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