The Travelling Players (1975)

Directors

Thodoros Angelopoulos

Cast

Aliki Georgouli, Christoforos Nezer, Danis Katranidis, Dimitris Kaberidis, Eva Kotamanidou, Giannis Fyrios, Giorgos Tzifos, Grigoris Evangelatos, Maria Vassiliou, Nena Menti, Petros Zarkadis, Vangelis Kazan

The story

A group of travelling players tour through Greece putting on a play called Golfo the Shepherdess. The first level of the film shows them setting up, rehearsing, promoting and performing in fustanella this 1893 piece, a bucolic verse drama of love, betrayal and death. In the next level the film focuses on the historical events between 1939 and 1952 as they are experienced by the travelling players and as they affect the communities which they visit: the last year of Metaxas' authoritarian dictatorship, the war against the Italians, the Nazi occupation, the liberation, the civil war between the government and communist insurgents, and…

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