Spyros (Marcello Mastroianni) is a teacher in a small provincial town where he has lived his whole life. He is also a former leftist partisan. After his daughter’s wedding and his son’s departure,...
Alexandros (Bruno Ganz) is a seriously ill writer who is working on Dionysios Solomos’ unfinished work entitled “The Free Besieged”. He is searching for a linguistic and existential identity. He...
A movie director takes a tour of the turbulent Balkan peninsula, and, like another Ulysses, he makes a return trip through memory and the skeins of recent history. A quest involving the old Greek urba...
A pretty young woman (Vera Krouska), who is the widow of an emigrant to Germany, moves to Zakynthos with her daughter. She has an affair with the progressive teacher of a village and helps him with th...
A mother with her daughter travel to Alexandria, where the former grew up. The trip brings back memories, but it also reveals unpleasant facts that change the lives of the two women and bring them clo...