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O melissokomos (1986)

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A bee keeper, Spiros, travels from the north to the south of Greece with his bees to meet the spring.

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Cast

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Spyros
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The Girl
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Sick Man
Jenny Roussea ...
Spyros' Wife
Dinos Iliopoulos ...
Spyros' Friend
Vassia Panagopoulou
Iakovos Panotas ...
Solder / The Girl / Side Boyfriend
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Stamatis Gardelis
Mihalis Giannatos
Karyofyllia Karabeti
Konstandinos Konstandopoulos ...
(as Kostas Konstadopoulos)
Nikos Kouros
Christoforos Nezer
Stratos Pahis
Dimitris Poulikakos
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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 reaction is to repeat "Not in this way!" A friend had a shut down cinema where they could sleep. ... Written by Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden

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18 December 1987 (Finland)  »

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Part II of "A Trilogy of Silence". See more »

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Hauntingly beautiful in its desolation
26 November 2000 | by (Hattingen) – See all my reviews

Wonderfully poetic movie, the images of which (gas stations, industrial grounds, and lots of rain) stick in one's mind. This film about a middle aged man searching for some meaning in his otherwise empty life is made the more poetic and unforgettable by the magnificently melancholic music of Eleni Karaindrou.


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