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1 November 1997 (USA)
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"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Harvey Keitel | ... | A | |
| Erland Josephson | ... | S., Film Museum Curator | |
| Maia Morgenstern | ... | 'Ulysses' Wife | |
| Thanasis Vengos | ... | Taxi Driver | |
| Giorgos Mihalakopoulos | ... | Friend and Journalist | |
| Costas Santas | |||
| Dora Volanaki | ... | Old Woman | |
| Mania Papadimitriou | |||
| Yorgos Konstas | |||
| Thanos Grammenos | |||
| Alekos Oudinotis | |||
| Angel Ivanof | |||
| Ljuba Tadic | |||
| Vaggelis Liodakis | |||
| Gert Llanaj |
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Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα (Greece)
Der Blick des Odysseus (Germany)
Lo sguardo di Ulisse (Italy)
The Gaze of Odysseus
The Look of Ulysses
Ulysses' Gaze (USA) (literal English title)
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Der Blick des Odysseus (Germany)
Lo sguardo di Ulisse (Italy)
The Gaze of Odysseus
The Look of Ulysses
Ulysses' Gaze (USA) (literal English title)
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176 min
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Greece
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Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Albania
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The first thing God created was the journey, then came doubt, and nostalgia.
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I think this is the good movie and that Angelopoulos was right on target when he showed his disappointment for not winning the Golden Palm during the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.
Not that the "Underground" was a bad movie. But the Gaze is better. The Gaze touches the source of the problem in the Balkan region. Balkans is a very beautiful region with wonderful landscapes and people with long history. There is where the problem is. There is too much history in the Balkans. Too many cultures, too many religions and too many political conflicts. The lost innocence of the Balkans, which the hero, the director "A" is looking for throughout the movie, is offered to the viewer through the movie's wonderful cinematography. There you see the best of Northern Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania. Many cities have different names in different languages. Many people fight with each other too. What remains in the end is the bitter-sweat taste of a region where virtue and malice go hand in hand.
One final remark. I agree with many critics who pointed out that the movie has some technical flaws, including its extremely slow pacing. Yes the movie could have been faster a.s.o. But hey, have you ever seen a better "glance" of the lost innocence of the Balkans?
People who have visited or lived in this region can surely appreciate this motion picture even more.