Meteoro vima tou pelargou, To (1991)

Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Among them, he notices an old man and thinks he his an important greek politician who disappeared misteriously a few years ago. Back in Athens, he asks this politician's former wife to come and identify him. A slow and dry meditation about inhumanity of borders.






Rating: 7.6/10
Runtime: 143
Language: greek
Country: greece
Color: BW

Director: Theo Angelopoulos
Cast:

Marcello Mastroianni … Missing Politician
Jeanne Moreau … The Woman
Gregory Patrikareas … Alexandre the Reporter (as Gregory Karr)
Ilias Logothetis … Colonel
Dora Hrisikou … The Girl
Vassilis Bouyiouklakis … Production Manager
Dimitris Poulikakos … Chief Photographer
Gerasimos Skiadaressis … Waiter
Tasos Apostolou … Perchman
Akis Sakellariou … Sound Operator
Athinodoros Prousalis … Hotel-keeper
Mihalis Giannatos … Shopkeeper
Christoforos Nezer … Parliament's President
Yilmaz Hassan … Hanged Man
Benjamin Ritter … Sound Operator
Description: Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Among them, he notices an old man and thinks he his an important greek politician who disappeared misteriously a few years ago. Back in Athens, he asks this politician's former wife to come and identify him. A slow and dry meditation about inhumanity of borders.