Original title: To Vlemma tou Odyssea

English title: Ulysses' gaze

Swedish title: Odysseus blick

Director: Theo Angelopoulos

Year of production: 1995
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114863/
IMDB rating: 7.2/10 (1327 votes as of Feb 11 2007)
Picture: 704x400
Codec: XviD
Size: 1x1.56 GB (1�677�140�842 bytes)
Audio: stereo 2.0, AC3, 192 kb/s
Spoken languages: English, Greek
Subtitles: none
Runtime: 2h 49m 10s

Actors:
Harvey Keitel
Erland Josephson
Maia Morgenstern
Thanassis Vengos
Yorgos Michalakopoulos
Dora Volanaki

This is a film by the great director who also made the wonderful movies "Weeping
meadows" (2004) and "Eternity and a day" (1998).

From the press:

Amazon: "Demanding, difficult, portentous...typically fascinating, typically long

(three hours) work.",
"En av de st�rsta filmupplevelserna i mitt liv." (Nils Petter Sundgren, TV4)
"Fem Getingar" (Expressen)
"Ger upphov till eftertanke" (Aftonbladet)

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Plot Summary

"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native
Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films.
But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first film
shot by the Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly
criss-crossed the Balkans and, without regard for national and ethnic strife,
recorded the region's history and customs. Did these primitive, never-developed
images really exist? If so, where are they?

- "Why 'A'? It's an alphabetical choice. Every filmmaker remembers the first time
he looked through the viewfinder of a camera. It is a moment that is not so much
the discovery of cinema, but the discovery of the world. But there comes a moment
when the filmmaker begins to doubt his own capacity to see things, when he no
longer knows if his gaze is right and innocent."

--Theo Angelopoulos

Source:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114863/
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Harvey Keitel spelar regiss�r "A", som efter 35 �rs exil i USA �terv�nder till sin
hemstad i Grekland f�r att visa en av sina kontroversiella filmer. Vi f�r h�ra
n�gra citat fr�n visningen och ett av dem, "hur m�nga gr�nser m�ste man passera
innan man har kommit hem" �r lika giltigt f�r s�v�l Odysseus som Angelopoulos.

Efter visningen ger sig A ut p� vad han kallar en personlig resa. Han har snubblat
�ver informationen att tre rullar fr�n br�derna Maniakis filmproduktion i b�rjan av
seklet fortfarande ligger oframkallade i n�got filmarkiv. A �r besatt att tanken
att f� se denna den f�rsta filmen, den f�rsta blicken, och ger sig ut p� en l�ng
resa, genom tid och rum, �ver hela Balkan.

Source:
http://www.nojesguiden.se/film/331