The Dust of Time
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Dust of Time |
| Original title | Trilogia II: I skoni tou chronou |
| Country of production |
Germany France Greece Italy Russia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 125 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Theodoros Angelopoulos |
| script | Theodoros Angelopoulos Tonino Guerra Petros Markaris |
| music | Eleni Karaindrou |
| camera | Andreas Sinanos |
| cut |
Giorgos Chelidonidis Giannis Tsitsopoulos |
| occupation | |
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The Dust of Time (in German: "The Dust of Time") is a feature film by Theo Angelopoulos from 2008. The international co-production with the film, the second part of a trilogy that Angelopoulos in 2004 cries The earth began, and which remained unfinished due to his death in 2012.
action
In Rome in 1999 a director tried to complete a film about his mother's life, but failed at the film's finale. He remembers the different stages in his mother Eleni's life. She is Greek, as is her lover Spyros. After the end of the Second World War , Spyros looked for Eleni in various countries and ended up with false papers in the Soviet Union, where Eleni ended up as a result of the civil war in Greece. He found her in Tashkent in 1953, on the day of Stalin's death. The two love each other on the tram and are arrested. Eleni is exiled to Siberia, Spyros is imprisoned. Eleni is expecting a child from Spyros - the future director.
In Siberia Eleni meets the German Jew Jacob. His sister Rachel, who lives in Moscow, takes Eleni's son into care. Eleni and Jacob were only allowed to leave Siberia in 1974. As a transit traveler you can reach Austria. Jacob actually wants to emigrate to Israel, while Eleni wants to go to the USA to find the Spyros who lives there. In the end Jacob stays with Eleni out of love. She searches for Spyros in New York until one day she actually finds him. Some time later she sees her son again, who is now an adult and lives in Canada.
In 1989 the director met the German Helga while filming. They have a daughter, whom they name Eleni. The marriage breaks up and the child Eleni develops psychological problems. The director tries in vain to persuade his wife, who has traveled to Rome, to return to the family. Meanwhile Eleni has disappeared. She hasn't been to school for a week. She calls her father several times, crying, but hangs up as soon as he answers. Helga posts a missing person report and the director travels back to Berlin. Everyone comes together on the eve of New Year's Eve 1999: Eleni and her husband Spyros have decided to go back to Greece. You make a stop in Berlin and are picked up by your son. Spyros and his wife receive a visit at the hotel from Jacob, who now lives in Leipzig and is in Berlin because of an inheritance matter. The three of them go to a bar on New Year's Eve, as they once did in Toronto when Spyros proposed marriage to Eleni; Jacob relived the feelings of loss he felt in New York City in 1974 when Eleni went in search of Spyros every day. The three of them go to the subway station, where Eleni has a dizzy spell after dancing with both men.
Meanwhile, the director learns that his daughter is in an occupied demolished house and wants to take her own life. He rushes there with his mother and Spyros and manages to dissuade Eleni from her plan. Her grandmother, on the other hand, is extremely exhausted from the day's events and lies down to sleep in the afternoon. Jacob visits her and Spyros again and says goodbye to the sleeping Eleni. Shortly afterwards he throws himself into the Spree . Eleni wakes up when it is already dark and wants to set the table for New Year's Eve dinner. Suddenly she collapses and dies while people in Berlin celebrate the turn of the year.
production
The Dust of Time was filmed from January to February 2008 in Rome and Berlin, among others. The film was first screened on November 22, 2008 at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival . In Germany it ran for the first time in February 2009 as part of the Berlinale . It was shown in German cinemas on October 29, 2009 and was released on DVD in 2010.
criticism
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung criticized that “the locations of the action [...] appear thrown together, the time leaps hastily and arbitrarily. The scales of the narrative, on which Angelopoulos wants to balance the key moments of a century and the stages of a sad and beautiful love story, never comes completely into balance, the film stumbles from one scenic assertion to the other. ”The“ large, carefully choreographed cinema images ”, the Angelopoulos 'Awards for films existed, but they are hanging in the air because they have no support in the story itself. The individual characters in the film, in turn, are only “patterns of a concept that is as powerful as it is lifeless.” Die Zeit criticized the fact that the film “largely lacks the great visual fulcrum and resting points” and that the story becomes arbitrary over time due to its countless time leaps.
The lexicon of international film criticized the fact that director Angelopoulos "could only tie in with the epic power and poetry of earlier masterpieces in a few moving moments and [...] all too often [lost] himself in erratic scraps of plot and woodenly recited dialogues."
Web links
- The Dust of Time in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Dust of Time at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The earth weeps at the Brandenburg Gate - article in the FAZ , February 12, 2009
- ↑ In search of a new illusion. In: Euranet . November 8, 2009, archived from the original on December 12, 2010 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
- ^ The Dust of Time. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on January 24, 2017 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
- ^ Andreas Kilb: Final in Berlin . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 20, 2009.
- ↑ Jan Schulz-Ojala: The time and the window . In: zeit.de, February 13, 2009.
- ^ The Dust of Time. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 25, 2018 .