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Ulysses' Gaze

User Score119 votes
74%7.4/10
Release1995
Runtime2H 49M
LanguageAlbanian
StatusReleased

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

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Media13

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Director

Theo Angelopoulos

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Keywords

affectationbalkan warfilm directordrearyarrogantcomplicatedconceitedpretentious

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Reviews1

deepkino

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

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