| Plot: | This film follows a group of refugees over the course of a few decades beginning in 1919 Greece. Focusing on two orphaned kids who are taken in and raised in a small village, the film follows their growing up and eventually falling in love.
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| Overview: | Angelopoulos' first feature since 'Eternity and a Day', which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1998, TRILOGY: THE WEEPING MEADOW, a new masterpiece, premiered in Berlin competition last year. Theo Angelopoulos has taken on a particularly wide-ranging historical panorama as the subject of his latest trilogy. It is, however, this panorama that allows him to recount a number of highly personal stories: 'It is a story of exile, separation and wandering, chronicling the collapse of ideologies and the trials of history'.
The story begins just after the Red Army's invasion of Odessa. The Greek population become refugees and flee to their homeland. This is where the love story between Alexis and Eleni begins.
Although the pair have grown up together, their love goes against the wishes of Alexis' father, who sees in Eleni a suitable wife for himself. But prior to the wedding, Eleni has already secretly given birth to twins fathered by Alexis. The boys are given up for adoption in Thessaloniki.
Eloping from their village, the young couple go to Thessaloniki where Alexis makes a living as an accordion player and they are reunited with their twin sons. However, all of their efforts to keep their love intact are in vain. Finally, Alexis emigrates to the USA; Eleni is imprisoned for supporting opponents of the regime. The Second World War breaks out, Greece is occupied by the Italians and then by the Germans. After the war, the country plunges into civil war and the couple's sons fight on opposing sides. Eleni's life follows the course set by her country's ancient heroes - the struggle of the Seven against Thebes.
The second part of the trilogy will be a 'road' movie that begins in Uzbekistan in 1953 on the day of Stalin's death and crosses Russia to Siberia and Moscow. In the third part the action shifts to Hungary, the Austrian border and Italy before ending in New York in 1974.
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