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The huntsmen

Theo Angelopoulos | Greece | 1977 | 163' | | IFFR 1994

Characteristic example of the freedom that Das kleine Fernsehspiel gives film-makers, because the film is three hours long and made up of the long plans séquence typical of Angelopoulos.Using an almost mythical event, Angelopoulos narrates in an form resembling a parable the painful post-war political history of his country. During a hunting trip, a group finds the corpse of a young man. The body is in perfect condition, but all the evidence points to him being a partisan, thousands of whom were killed during the civil war between 1946 and 1949.

Film details

Country of production
Greece
Year
1977
Festival edition
IFFR 1994
Length
163"
Medium/Format
umatic PAL

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