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The Weeping Meadow is a grec film of genre Drama directed by Theo Angelopoulos released in USA on 14 september 2005 with Michael Giannatos
The Weeping Meadow (2004)
Τριλογία - Το Λιβάδι που Δακρύζει (Trilogia - To Livadi pou dakrizi)
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Add to a movie listTrilogy: The Weeping Meadow (Greek: Τριλογία: Το λιβάδι που δακρύζει) is an award-winning 2004 Greek romantic historical drama film, written and directed by Theo Angelopoulos. It stars Alexandra Aidini, Thalia Argyriou, Giorgos Armenis, Vasilis Kolovos and Nikos Poursanidis, and was released during the 2004 Berlin International Film Festival, on 11 February 2004. It is the first film of a projected trilogy about recent events in Greek history. The Dust of Time (2008) is the second film of the trilogy. In January 2012, Angelopoulos died unexpectedly, leaving the trilogy uncompleted.
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The film revives themes of Angelopoulos' 1975 film The Travelling Players, and its events span from 1919 to the aftermath of World War II. It tells the story of Greek history through the sufferings of one family. A band of refugees that returns to Greece after the Russian Revolution adopts an orphaned girl, Eleni (Alexandra Aidini). Eleni becomes the focus of the story. The film follows her through adolescence and the marriage to her musician half-brother Alexis (Nikos Poursanidis). Eleni becomes pregnant by Alexis, and bears twin boys, who are sent away at birth. Many years later she is forced to marry her widowed adopted father. On her wedding day, Eleni escapes with Alexis to Thessaloniki, where they reunite with their sons. Their lives are then ripped apart by World War II and the ensuing Greek Civil War.Actors
Michael Giannatos
(Zisis)
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