The Travelling Players (1975)

AKA:
Ο Θίασος >> Greek
O thiasos >> Greek
Die Wanderschauspieler >> German

About:
Greece 1939 - 1952 Fascist, Nazi, Communist conflict as seen through a family of travelling provincial players

Synopsis:
A group of traveling players peregrinates through Greece attempting to perform the popular erotic drama Golfo The Shepherdess. In a first level the film focuses on the historical events between 1939 and 1952 as they are experienced by the traveling players and as they affect the villages which they visit: The last year of Metaxas' fascist dictatorship, the war against the Italians, the Nazi occupation, the liberation, the civil war between left and right wingers, the British and American interventionism in the Greek politics. In a second level the characters live their own drama of jealousy and betrayal, with its roots in the ancient myth of the House of Atreus. Agamemnon, a Greek refugee from Minor Asia, goes to war against the Italians in 1940, joins the resistance against the Germans, and is executed by them after being betrayed by Clytemnestra and Aegisthos. Aegisthos, Clytemnestra's lover.

Starring:
Eva Kotamanidou
Aliki Georgouli
Vangelis Kazan

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
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