The Travelling Players (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1975)
A group of theater actors are traveling in Greece to try to perform the erotic tale of Golfo. With this 230 minutes film Theodoros Angelopoulos, who was a film critic in Greece for a socialist journal, directs his third feature film that tries to summarize in episodic vignettes some of the most important moments of the History of Greece in the 20th Century. The rise of the Nazis, the Occupation, the presence of the Englishmen, the rise of the leftist governement, etc. It is a very political movie that wants to be a representation of a particualr time. Much like Federico Fellini’s Amarcord, Angelopoulos’ film doesn’t have a distinct narrative and the almost documentary feeling of the whole thing brings a genuine historical angle to the events pictured.
