About Angelopoulos
Theo Angelopoulos was born on April 27, 1935 in Athens, Greece. Greek director, screenwriter, and producer. In 1967, the short film "Communication" was filmed, which was called "New Greek Film";
1 1970, directed the feature film debut "Reconstruction", the film won the 24th Cannes International Film Festival "Director's Fortnight" section of the International Critics Award;
2 In 1972, the feature film "The Years in 1936", which was written and directed, won the Fabici Award at the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival;
In 1975, the feature film "Wandering Artist" was launched, which won the 28th Cannes International Film Festival Fabici Award and the 25th Berlin International Film Festival Interfilm Award;
In 1977, the feature film "Hunter" was filmed, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 30th Cannes International Film Festival;
3 In 1980, he wrote and directed the feature film "Alexander the Great", which won the Special Jury Award of the 37th Venice International Film Festival;
4 In 1984, he won the Best Screenplay Award at the 37th Cannes International Film Festival with the feature film "Journey to the Isle of Sesser";
5 In 1988, the feature film "Landscape in the Mist" won the Silver Lion Award at the 45th Venice International Film Festival;
6 In 1991, directed the feature film "Stork Sting", which was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 44th Cannes International Film Festival;
7 In 1995, he created the feature film "The Life Journey of Ulysses", which won the Jury Prize at the 48th Cannes Film Festival;
8 In 1998, the feature film "Eternal Day" won the Palme d'Or at the 51st Cannes International Film Festival;
9 In 2004, he was nominated for Best Director at the 17th European Film Festival for directing the feature film "Crying Prairie"; 10 In 2008, he wrote and directed the feature film "Dust of Time". Final Chapter On January 25, 2012, Theoann Jeropoulos died in a car accident on the street when he was shooting the movie "Another Sea" in Athens at the age of 76.
? "The Journey of Ulysses' Life" (The Gaze of Ulysses/The Gaze of Ulysses) is the title of a war movie in 1995.
Introduction: This film begins to review the first silent film reflecting the Balkan Peninsula during World War I. The content is a scene describing the lives of female textile workers. The protagonist (Harvey Keitel played by Harvey Keitel) is a Greek-American. After experiencing the baptism of war, he returned to his hometown with emotion, looking for the beginning of the movie. He told his companions about the years he had spent here, nostalgic and sad.
Through the protagonist's process of tracing the movie from Southern Europe to Eastern Europe, the director used real and illusory methods to make various reflections and reflections on the complex history and split status of the Balkan countries, and finally found the answer in Sarajevo, which was devastated by war. The film reproduces the director's humane care for history and the people. Through the broken scenery and the turbulent hearts of the people, the entire film search process is shrouded in despair and sadness. There are many symbolic objects in the film, such as the movie city ransacked by war and the huge statue of Lenin on the Danube, which all present a political connotation of "staring".
It combines historical times and personal destiny to show, analyzes the sad memory of the nation under the change of political structure, uses the protagonist to pursue "old movies as the main line, splicing history into fragments, and expresses in abstract and surreal methods, but at the same time it contains With the color of pseudo-documentary, it is like a dream and illusion.
This film fully stretches the viewer's imagination. The objects are like Lenin's head, the marching army, and the dense fog all carry the background color of the composition and metaphor. The cruelty of history and the ruthlessness of time are thoroughly exposed. In the end, everything the protagonist has seen in the process of tracing disappears in smoke. At the end, blank film footage is showing, and the melody of Gada Gada is like the time we have passed, and finally ends in the protagonist's monologue.
Philosophical dialogue
1 The first thing God created is travel, then doubt, and then homesickness.
Final Chapter Monologue
【Finish】
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