Ulysses' Gaze
Synopsis
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Principal Cast8

Harvey Keitel
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Erland Josephson
Ivo Levy

Maia Morgenstern
Ulysses' Wives

Thanasis Veggos
Taxi Driver

Giorgos Mihalakopoulos
Nikos

Dora Volanaki
Old Woman

Mania Papadimitriou
Mother

Giorgos Konstas
Father
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Theo Angelopoulos
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Reviews1
This is a journey film—both internal and external—set across Albania, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Greece. The story follows a director on a quest to find the lost film by the Manakis brothers, purported to be Greece's first motion picture. However, his search leads him not to a cinematic treasure, but to the slow death agony of the Balkans themselves. His journey culminates not in discovery, but in depression, pain, and a profound sense of defeat—a feeling powerfully symbolized by the recurring image of a fragmented statue of Lenin.
Oct 11, 2025































