L'Éternité et un jour
Theo Angelopoulos
Alexander, a leading Greek writer is about to leave Thessaloniki to go on a long and obscure journey. He finds a letter from his wife, about a summer's day 30 years ago. The past and the present begin criss-crossing in this tale which is both realistic and dreamlike following the wanderings of the last days of a man in his town...
With : Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renaud, Achileas Skevis, Despina Bebedelli, Iris Chatziantoniou
Screenplay : Theo Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris, Giorgio Silvagni
Image : Yorgos Arvanitis, Andreas Sinani
Sound : Bernard Leroux
Editing : Yannis Tsitsopoulos
Decors : Giorgos Patsas, Giorgos Ziakas
Music : Eleni Karaindrou
Screenplay : Theo Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris, Giorgio Silvagni
Image : Yorgos Arvanitis, Andreas Sinani
Sound : Bernard Leroux
Editing : Yannis Tsitsopoulos
Decors : Giorgos Patsas, Giorgos Ziakas
Music : Eleni Karaindrou
Production : Paradis Films, Intermédias, La Sept Cinéma
Distribution: Océan Films
Distribution: Océan Films
"Bruno Ganz walks along the quays and the grey winter day seems to be born by his presence. He runs through the dockland night, and it is as if the darkness was waiting for him. He stops to watch a wedding procession, and a circle is drawn around him. The fog submerges a mountain border, and his presence outlines the landscape. His way of being, both solitary and laconic, in a no man's land of life, is something that is not given to everyone" (Brigitte Salino). This was the first time that Angelopoulos filmed Bruno Ganz, and they met up again ten years later with I skoni tou hronou (The Dust of Time). He plays Alexander, Angelopoulos' double. "I began the film with Bruno Ganz in February 1997. I shot for two weeks and then I stopped. I felt so close, I had such identification that I couldn't direct because I saw Ganz, and I couldn't accept that because it wasn't me" (Théo Angelopoulos).