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We are… waiting for the world to change but have no idea when this is going to happen. History is now silent. And we are all trying to find answers by digging into ourselves, for it is terribly difficult to live in silence.

The Weeping Meadow is the first in Angelopoulos's poetic trilogy focused on the political and social history of Greece during the 20th Century. It elliptically moves through time, using the motif of water to reflect the sweeping and devastating effects of history. It follows a family of Greek refugees returning to their homeland after the Russian Revolution in 1919, through to their expatriation to America in 1949 at the end of the Greek Civil War. It focuses on the life of orphaned girl Eleni (Alexandra Aidini) and her half-brother Alexis (Nikos Poursanidis), and their passage through adolescence, marriage and parenthood. Their lives become ensnared in the political upheaval between trade unionists and the government and the events of World War II. The Weeping Meadow is Angelopoulos's most commanding and visually accomplished film, and features some of his most mesmerising sequences of shifting scale, including the exodus of refugees from Odessa to Thessaloniki, a vast floating funeral procession and the flooding of a village.

Ages 18+