
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Genre: DramaHistoryWar
Starring: Harvey KeitelErland JosephsonMaia MorgensternThanasis VeggosGiorgos Mihalakopoulos
Language: el
Duration: 169mins
Release: 1995-10-12
Rating: 7.4
10/11/2025
This is a journey film—both internal and external—set across Albania, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Greece. The story follows a director on a quest to find the lost film by the Manakis brothers, purported to be Greece's first motion picture. However, his search leads him not to a cinematic treasure, but to the slow death agony of the Balkans themselves. His journey culminates not in discovery, but in depression, pain, and a profound sense of defeat—a feeling powerfully symbolized by the recurring image of a fragmented statue of Lenin.