The Travelling Players (1975)
O thiasos (original title)

Cast

Credited cast:
	Eva Kotamanidou	...	Elektra
	Aliki Georgouli	...	Elektra's Mother
	Vangelis Kazan	...	Aegisthus
	Stratos Pahis	...	Elektra's Father
	Maria Vassiliou	...	Chrysothemis
	Petros Zarkadis	...	Orests
	Kiriakos Katrivanos	...	Pyladis
	Giannis Fyrios	...	Accordionisth
	Nina Papazaphiropoulou	...	Old Woman
	Alekos Boubis	...	Old Man
	Grigoris Evangelatos	...	Poet
	Giorgos Tzifos
	Kosta Stiliaris	...	Militia leader
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Takis Doukatos
	Thanos Grammenos

Storyline

A group of traveling players peregrinates through Greece attempting to perform the popular erotic drama Golfo The Shepherdess. In a first level the film focuses on the historical events between 1939 and 1952 as they are experienced by the traveling players and as they affect the villages which they visit: The last year of Metaxas' fascist dictatorship, the war against the Italians, the Nazi occupation, the liberation, the civil war between left and right wingers, the British and American interventionism in the Greek politics. In a second level the characters live their own drama of jealousy and betrayal, with its roots in the ancient myth of the House of Atreus. Agamemnon, a Greek refugee from Minor Asia, goes to war against the Italians in 1940, joins the resistance against the Germans, and is executed by them after being betrayed by Clytemnestra and Aegisthos. Aegisthos, Clytemnestra's lover... Written by Alkistis Zografou  

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