Anaparastasi

1970
1h 50m

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A husband working in West Germany pays a visit back home to his village in Epirus and is murdered by his wife and her married lover.A husband working in West Germany pays a visit back home to his village in Epirus and is murdered by his wife and her married lover.A husband working in West Germany pays a visit back home to his village in Epirus and is murdered by his wife and her married lover.

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7.3/10

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Awards
- 6 wins & 1 nomination total

Trivia
"Little Short Lemon Tree", a traditional lament from Epirus, is used for the opening and ending of the film. It's the same song that one of the prisoners whistles right before the attempted escape in Days of '36 (1972), it makes its way into the wedding scene of The Travelling Players (1975) and it's also heard during a scene of The Hunters (1977) (right before the publisher reads out a document to the civil engineer), drawing a connection between the early films of Theodoros Angelopoulos.

Connections
Featured in Affection to the People (2013)

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6/10

Formalism

At first sight the film looks OK; everything is neat and the half-documentary style suits well Angelopoulos and appears to serve its purpose... I don't feel very comfortable with formalists though, honestly I don't trust them very much. For me formalism is a way of lying. When you don't have much to say, you resort to formalism - that is my idea for films and for life itself. Or, you deliberately aim to cover your tracks - but what would Angelopoulos want to hide in this particular film? Well, he seems to have a good deal of contempt for erotic passion, just to mention one.