A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.
Direction
Those legendary long takes — one shot lasts nearly 10 minutes.
Cinematography
Mist-shrouded compositions that turn Greece into purgatory.
Writing
Aeschylus meets WWII in the most devastating mashup ever.
Director
Theo Angelopoulos
Eva Kotamanidou
Elektra
Vangelis Kazan
Aegisthus
Aliki Georgouli
Clytemnestra (Elektra's mother)
Kiriakos Katrivanos
Pylades
Stratos Pahis
Agamemnon (Electra's father)
Nina Papazaphiropoulou
Old Woman
Giannis Fyrios
Accordionist
Maria Vassiliou
Chrysothemis (Elektra's sister)
Grigoris Evangelatos
Poet
Petros Zarkadis
Orestis (Electra's brother)
Nena Menti
Giorgos Mazis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Angelopoulos shot chronologically over three years so cast members would visibly age, and the 1952 election scene uses actual documentary footage of the crowds.
Banned in Greece until 1978 by the military junta, who correctly recognized it as a 4-hour indictment of their entire political system.
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