Dust of Time, The Greece / Italy / Germany / France / Russia
2008, 125min.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Script: Theodoros Angelopoulos in collaboration with: Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris, Director of Photography: Andreas Sinanos, Composer: Eleni Karaindrou, Sound: Marinos Athanassopoulos, Jerome Aghion, Prod.Design: Andrea Crisanti, Dionysos Fotopoulos, Editors: Yorgos Helidonidis, Yannis Tsitsopoulos
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli, Irene Jacob, Christiane Paul, Reni Pittaki, Kostas Apostolidis, Alexandros Milonas, Norman Mozzato, Alessia Franchin Valentina Carnelutti, Tiziana Pfiffner, Chantel Brathwaite, Herbert Meurer, Sviatoslav Yshakov, Vladimir Bogenko, Ivan Nemtsev
An American film director of Greek ancestry is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the U.S.A. The main character is Eleni, who has claimed the absoluteness of love. At the same time the film is a long journey into the vast history and the events of the fifty-year period that left their mark on the 20th century. The characters in the film move as though in a dream. The dust of time obscures memories.
Production Companies
Theo Angelopoulos Films
Greek Film Centre
Greek Ministry of Culture
ERT S.A.
Νova
Studio 217 Ars
Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Lichtmeer Film
Filmstiftung Nordhein Westfalen
Deutscher Filmforderfonds (DFFF)
ARD Degeto
Classic SRL
RegioneLazio/FI.LA.S Spa
MiBAC - Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali
| Angelopoulos, Theodoros  Theodoros Angelopoulos (born 1935, Athens)
He studied law at the University of Athens. After completing his military service, he went to Paris to attend Sorbonne, and then enrolled in the prestigious French film school, IDHEC, to study film. He worked for a time at the Musée de l'Homme under the tutelage of Jean Rouch, the ethnographer and pioneer of cinema verite. He returned to Athens in 1964 and, until 1967, was a film critic for the leftist paper Democratic Change. He began to make films at around 1965 – an attempt at a full-length feature film entitled The Forminx Story, which he never completed after a disagreement with the producers – and then a short film Broadcast. In 1970 came his first full-length feature film Reconstruction. Since then his films have been featured in countless international festivals and have won numerous awards, which have established his reputation as one of the most influential directors in contemporary cinema.
Filmography
Forminx Story (1965), The Broadcast (1968), Reconstruction (1970), Days of ’36 (1972), The Travelling Players (1974-75), The Hunters (1977), Megalexandros (1980), One Village, One Villager (1981, TV), Athens, Return to the Acropolis (1983, TV), Voyage to Cythera (1983), The Bee-Keeper (1986), Landscape in the Mist (1988), The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991), Ulysse’s Gaze (1995), Lumiere and Company (segment, 1995), Eternity and a Day (1998), The Weeping Meadow (2003), To Each His Own Cinema (segment Trois Minutes, 2007), Dust of Time (2008)
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