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The weeping meadow, New Yorker Films presents a Theo Angelopoulous, Greek Film Centre, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation ERT S.A., Attica Art Productions, BAC Films S.A., Intermedias S.A., Arte France ; produced with the participation of Canal+ (Paris), Classic SRL, Istituto Luce SpA, RAI Cinema (Rome), Network Movie Reinhold Elschot Peter Nadermann, ZDF/Arte Meinolf Zurhorst ; and with the support of the Eurimages Fund of the Council of Europe ; a film by Theo Angelopoulos ; producer, Phoebe Economopoulos ; screenplay, Theo Angelopoulos with Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris & Giorgio Silvagni ; directed by Theo Angelopoulos

Label
The weeping meadow, New Yorker Films presents a Theo Angelopoulous, Greek Film Centre, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation ERT S.A., Attica Art Productions, BAC Films S.A., Intermedias S.A., Arte France ; produced with the participation of Canal+ (Paris), Classic SRL, Istituto Luce SpA, RAI Cinema (Rome), Network Movie Reinhold Elschot Peter Nadermann, ZDF/Arte Meinolf Zurhorst ; and with the support of the Eurimages Fund of the Council of Europe ; a film by Theo Angelopoulos ; producer, Phoebe Economopoulos ; screenplay, Theo Angelopoulos with Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris & Giorgio Silvagni ; directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Language
gre
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
The weeping meadow
Oclc number
75970064
Responsibility statement
New Yorker Films presents a Theo Angelopoulous, Greek Film Centre, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation ERT S.A., Attica Art Productions, BAC Films S.A., Intermedias S.A., Arte France ; produced with the participation of Canal+ (Paris), Classic SRL, Istituto Luce SpA, RAI Cinema (Rome), Network Movie Reinhold Elschot Peter Nadermann, ZDF/Arte Meinolf Zurhorst ; and with the support of the Eurimages Fund of the Council of Europe ; a film by Theo Angelopoulos ; producer, Phoebe Economopoulos ; screenplay, Theo Angelopoulos with Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris & Giorgio Silvagni ; directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Runtime
163
Summary
Spanning the years 1919-1949, begins with refugees from Odessa settling on a piece of land that was promised to them on Greece's misty northern plains. The foundling Eleni falls in love with her adoptive brother Alexis, but is forced to marry his widowed father. Eleni flees with Alexi to the nearby port of Thessaloniki. As the unrest of the 1930s pits fascism against leftism, Alexis, departs for America and leaves Elenis behind to bear the brunt of Greek war, political repression and civil war
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
To Livadi pou dakryzeiTrilogia I: To Livadi pou dakryzei
Classification
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