Mia aioniotita kai mia mera (1998)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Director:

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Escritores:

Theodoros Angelopoulos (idea and scenario)
Tonino Guerra (co-writer) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

28 mayo 1999 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.

Plot Keywords:

Greece | Long Take | Emigrant | Poet | Soul Searching

Premios:

10 wins & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A Welcome Surprise

Reparto

Bruno Ganz	...	Alexandre
Isabelle Renauld	...	Anna
Fabrizio Bentivoglio	...	The Poet
Achileas Skevis	...	The Child
Alexandra Ladikou	...	Anna's Mother
Despina Bebedelli	...	Alexandre's Mother
Helene Gerasimidou	...	Urania
Iris Chatziantoniou	...	Alexandre's Daughter
Nikos Kouros	...	Anna's Uncle
Alekos Oudinotis	...	Anna's Father
Nikos Kolovos	...	The Doctor
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Andreas Chekouras
Mihalis Giannatos		(as Michalis Yannatos)
Petros Markaris
Yannis Mohlas
Efthimis Pappas	...	Party attendant
Maria Saltiri	...	Woman
Vassilis Seimenis	...	Son-in-Law
Leonidas Vardaros

También conocida como:

Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα (Greece)
Die Ewigkeit und ein Tag (Alemania)
Eternity and a Day (International: English title)
L'éternité et un jour (France)
L'eternità e un giorno (Italy)
La eternidad y un día (Spain) [es]

Duración:

137 min

País:

Greece | France | Alemania | Italy

Idioma:

Griego | Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.75 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby SR

Clasificación:

Spain:7 | Argentina:Atp | Chile:TE | Finland:S | France:U | Hong Kong:I | Portugal:M/12 | South Korea:Todo | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | USA:Unrated

Locaciones de Filmación:

Thessaloniki, Greece

Compañía:

Theo Angelopoulos Films

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Hrysa koritsia: (#1.15)" (2008)

Banda de Sonido:

Tis agapis aimata

A Welcome Surprise

"An Eternity and a Day", as the title translated in English means, is the answer Alexandros -the film's hero- receives as an epiphany, while pondering on the meaning of Tomorrow.

We surmise that he has only a few days left to live, and watch him face a dilemma: should he choose to give some meaning to the rest of his life, learn to love, care and express himself to the people he's in close contact with; or wither away, a stranger in his own life only to die a pointless death?

Contrary to popular opinion, the film's concept is really this simple.

Theo Angelopoulos has managed to win the appraisal of many, at the same time obtaining a hateful opposition. And while there are sequences in the film which will have you rolling your eyes and proclaiming "Get on with it!", it's unique pictorial beauty and lyricism will more than make up for the lack of movement.

Some of the downsides are the director's constant moulding of the world (and a strange one it is, where an 8 year old boy can debate like an adult and everyone spouts poetry instead of words) to fit his own megalomaniacal impulses - but maybe that's not a sin after all, maybe that's just what Creation is all about...

A deserved 7.