Balkan Landscapes The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos

Theo Angelopoulos recalls the defining moment in 1964 that led to him to live his entire life in Greece and explores the concept of borders in his work as the limits of existence of life and death of language and communication Narrowing down the borders narrows the communication stretches the differences magnifies oppositions magnifies reasons for war magnifies the refugees magnifies the internal exile In reality a civil war leaves behind wounds which cannot easily be healed and they revive like ghosts or like recurrent nightmares during the long nights which have dogged Greek society for years