Feeling himself an outsider in contemporary Greece, Spyros leaves his job and family to return to his hometown, where he intends to take up the occupation of his ancestors as a beekeeper. Throughout his road trip, he visits the sites and friends of his childhood, hoping to gather the pollen of his past, but instead meets and becomes obsessed with a young hitchhiker who represents the empty hedonism of the present.
O Melissokomos
1986
16 years
122 min.
Fiction
Greece, France
Greece, France, existential crisis, international film festivals, come back home
Colorido
Theo Angelopoulos
Theo Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Dimitris Nollas
Giorgos Arvanitis
Takis Yannopoulos
Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani
Theo Angelopoulos, Giuseppe Colombo, Enzo Rispoli
Greek Film Centre, ERT-1 TV, Paradis Films, Basicinematografica, Theo Angelopoulos Productions
Eleni Karaindrou
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