The Beekeeper

Retrospective

The Beekeeper

O Melissokomos

Greece, France 1986 Fiction cor 122 min.

Feeling himself an outsider in contemporary Greece, Spyros leaves his job and family to return to his hometown, where he intends to take up the occupation of his ancestors as a beekeeper. Throughout his road trip, he visits the sites and friends of his childhood, hoping to gather the pollen of his past, but instead meets and becomes obsessed with a young hitchhiker who represents the empty hedonism of the present.

Greece France existential crisis international film festivals come back home

direction

THEO ANGELOPOULOS

screenplay

Theo Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Dimitris Nollas

cinematography

Giorgos Arvanitis

editing

Takis Yannopoulos

sound

Nikos Achladis

music

Eleni Karaindrou

production design

Mikes Karapiperis

cast

Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani

production

Theo Angelopoulos, Giuseppe Colombo, Enzo Rispoli

produced by

Greek Film Centre, ERT-1 TV, Paradis Films, Basicinematografica, Theo Angelopoulos Productions

contact

[email protected]

indicative rating

16