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The Travelling Players

Ο θίασος

1975

A troupe of actors touring the Greek countryside from 1939 into the early 1950s tries to stage a folk play amid war, occupation, and civil conflict, their own lives echoing the nation's turbulent history. Theo Angelopoulos's monumental, elliptical epic.

Why it’s here

Theo Angelopoulos's Greek historical epic and a central work of New Greek Cinema.