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An error has ocurred. Please try againThis list is ordered depending on personal preference. Except of the film The Travelling Players and Eternity and a Day, that had an immense impact on me and clearly take over the places 1 and 2 of this list, it is difficult to put his films in an order of "likeness". And the reason is that all of them are deeply poetic pieces of art and can only be seen as individual chapters of his bigger body of work.
Keep also in mind the formation of thematic trilogies throughout his work:
The trilogy of history: Days of 36 (1972) The Travelling Players (1975) The Hunters (1977)
The trilogy of silence: Voyage to Cythera (1984) The Beekeeper (1986) Landscape in the Mist (1988)
The trilogy of borders: The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991) Ulysses’ Gaze (1995) Eternity and a Day (1998)
The trilogy of modern history: The Weeping Meadow (2004) The Dust of Time (2009) The Other Sea (unfinished)
Reviews
Oi paranomoi (1958)
An ode to the Greek resistance fighter
Filmed illegally at Meteora and under the fear of the censorship, that had not allowed the making of this film, Koundouros' "The Outlaws" handled a topic that incarnated the absolute taboo of those years. The Civil War had ended a decade ago and its effects were still everywhere to be felt - with the silencing of any leftist voice dominating in the society. The film does not concentrate on the Civil War itself though, but on the time before its outbreak when the Nazis had just left Greece and the resistance fighters were forced by the state to hand over their weapons. The fighters of Elas, who did not agree, went back to the mountains and were hunted by the police. Koundouros described his film as a film of wrath against the violence of the new police state that emerged after the war. Expectedly, "The Outlaws" survived only one day in the cinemas before being banned by the censors. The Outlaws is also a beautifully filmed film, with strong characters and a perfect soundtrack by Hadjidakis.