O melissokomos (1986)A bee keeper, Spiros, travels from the north to the south of Greece with his bees to meet the spring. Director:Theodoros Angelopoulos |
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O melissokomos (1986)A bee keeper, Spiros, travels from the north to the south of Greece with his bees to meet the spring. Director:Theodoros Angelopoulos |
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| Marcello Mastroianni | ... |
Spyros
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| Nadia Mourouzi | ... |
The Girl
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| Serge Reggiani | ... |
Sick Man
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Jenny Roussea | ... |
Spyros' Wife
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Dinos Iliopoulos | ... |
Spyros' Friend
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Vassia Panagopoulou | ||
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Iakovos Panotas | ... |
Solder
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The Girl
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Side Boyfriend
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Stamatis Gardelis | ||
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Mihalis Giannatos | ||
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Karyofyllia Karabeti | ||
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Konstandinos Konstandopoulos | ||
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Nikos Kouros | ||
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Christoforos Nezer | ||
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Stratos Pahis | ||
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Dimitris Poulikakos | ||
Spiros retires as a schoolteacher, his daughter is married, and he starts his annual journey with his bees to get honey from different areas. In his truck he finds a young girl who has just been abandoned and has no roots. Spiros lets her follow for a day. Seeing her difficulty in getting further hitch-hiking, he takes her back. They will meet and part several times. Later she will say that Spiros is the only one who has ever been kind to her. But his emotions are so restrained that he cannot show anything until a volcanic eruption breaks through. He does not seek serious contact until the eruption makes him drive the car right through the glass wall of the café in which the girl is sitting. She immediately follows him. But after this criminal event they can no longer live at hotels. From the beginning she was willing to sleep with him. But when he finally kisses her, her justified... Written by Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden
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