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Landscape in the Mist
(Topio stin omihli)

Screening on Film
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos.
With Tania Palaiologou, Eva Kotamanidou, Vangelis Kazan.
France/Greece/Italy, 1988, 35mm, color, 127 min.
Greek with English subtitles.

Born to a single mother, Voula (Palaiologou) and her younger brother Alexandros (Michalis Zeke) make regular trips to the train station to watch the departure of the train to Germany, where their mother has told them their father resides. One night, they get on the train, but instead of connecting with the father they have never met, they are plunged into a nightmarish fairy tale of a journey across the Greek landscape, one that is at once a rich evocation of the confusions of pre-adolescence, a commentary on the surreal nature of modern existence, and a point of connection between themes and characters from Angelopoulos’s earlier films.

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