Eternity and a day
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German title | Eternity and a day |
Original title | Mia aioniotita kai mia mera |
Country of production | Greece , France , Germany , Italy |
original language | Greek |
Publishing year | 1998 |
length | 137 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
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Director | Theo Angelopoulos |
script | Theo Angelopoulos Tonino Guerra Petros Markaris |
production | Theo Angelopoulos Eric Heumann Amedeo Pagani Giorgio Silvagni |
music | Eleni Karaindrou |
camera |
Giorgos Arvanitis Andreas Sinanos |
cut | Yannis Tsitsopoulos |
occupation | |
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Eternity and a Day ( Greek Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα ) is a melodrama by the Greek director Theo Angelopoulos .
Bruno Ganz plays the main role in the film about "Aging and saying goodbye to life " . Theo Angelopoulos was awarded the Palme d'Or in Cannes in 1998 for this film .
action
Thessaloniki : We observe the last day in the life (or before the hospitalization) of the exiled poet Alexander, suffering from cancer, who runs out of words to complete a poem of the 19th century. Alexander brings his daughter a letter from her mother and reminisces about his beloved wife. The man saves a little Albanian boy from human traffickers and spends his last day with the war orphan, in foggy landscapes, with music, dance and poetry . He can help him return to Albania and says goodbye to the boy late at night. After a few wrong turns, the film ends on the beach with a view of the sea.
Reviews
- "A virtuoso film about the loss of one's inner home, composed in long, extremely calm shots, which connects different levels of time and narrative and creates a world in which the past and the present stand side by side on an equal footing." ( Lexicon of international film )
- "A stoic , anachronistic monument" (Arthaus Collection)
- "Another masterpiece by Angelopoulos, which brings to mind such classic works as Bergman's Wild Strawberries or Kurosawa's Ikiru ." ( Kevin Thomas : Los Angeles Times )
One could instead of "wasting away [s]" and " Tarantino are watching and John Woo , and on the next Schwarzenegger pleased" , offered Ekkehard Knörer on.
Others
Average shot length (ASL) of the film, which is rich in planned sequences : a record-breaking 114.3 seconds.
The main role was for Marcello Mastroianni , who died on December 19, 1996.
Awards
- Golden palm for Theo Angelopoulos
- Ecumenical Jury Prize for Theo Angelopoulos
- Greek Competition Award in the Best Costume Design category for Giorgos Patsas
- Greek Competition Award in the Best Director category for Theo Angelopoulos
- Greek Competition Award in the Best Film category for Theo Angelopoulos
- Greek Competition Award in the Best Music category for Eleni Karaindrou
- Greek Competition Award in the Best Screenplay category for Theo Angelopoulos
- Greek Competition Award in the Best Set Decoration category for Giorgos Ziakas and Costas Dimitriadis
- Greek Competition Award in the Best Supporting Actress category for Helene Gerasimidou
Web links
- Eternity and a Day in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Eternity and a Day at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- IMDb detailed table of contents (English)
- Mark Stöhr: Eternity and a day in average
- Eternity and a day on the director's website
- John Mount: Eternity and a Day in Sight & Sound (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Arthaus Collection 47. Eternity and a Day (OmU). In: shop.spiegel.de. SPIEGEL Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH, accessed on March 8, 2009 .
- ↑ Eternity and a day. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Kevin Thomas: 'Eternity and a Day' Is a Seductive and Haunting Reverie. In: Los Angeles Times . May 28, 1999, accessed on March 8, 2009 (English): "Angelopoulos has created another masterpiece, one that recalls such classics as Bergman's Wild Strawberries and Kurosawa's Ikiru"
- ↑ Ekkehard Knörer : Theo Angelopoulos: Eternity and a day. Greece 1998. In: Jump Cut . Retrieved March 8, 2009 .
- ↑ http://www.cinemetrics.lv/database.php?sort=asl