THE DUST OF TIME

Greece, Germany, Italy, Russia - 2008 – Color -125’

Dir.-Scr.: Theo Angelopoulos | Cin.: Andreas Sinanos | Ed.: Yannis Tsitsopoulos, Yorgos Helidonidis | Mus.: Eleni Karaindrou | Cast: Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli, Irène Jacob, Christiane Paul, Reni Pittaki, Costas Apostolidis, Alexandros Mylonas | Prod.: Phoebe Economopoulos

A Greek-American filmmaker is making a movie based on the life of his mother, Eleni, while also searching for his lost love. His personal memories intertwine with the pivotal events of the 20th century, spanning from Italy and Berlin to Kazakhstan.

In his final work (the second part of his renowned “Trilogy,” with references to the Theban Cycle, which he sadly never completed), the great director unfolds his story between 1953 and 1974 — from the former Soviet Union and the Austrian–Hungarian border to Italy and New York — from the death of Stalin to Nixon’s resignation and the fall of the Greek dictatorship.

Memory, exile, displacement, civil strife, division, political violence, identity, destiny, self-knowledge, reconciliation with the past… All pass through the magnificent lens of Andreas Sinanos — and the dust of time never erases memory.