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Landscape In The Mist
''Landscape In The Mist'' (, Transliteration, translit.''Topío Stín Omíchli'') is a 1988 Greek Coming-of-age story, coming-of-age Road movie, road tragedy film co-written and directed by Theo Angelopoulos. The film was selected as the Greek entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. A critics' poll by the Village Voice included it in the 100 Best Films of the 20th Century list. The film is the third installment in Angelopoulos' ''Trilogy of Silence'', following ''Voyage to Cythera'' (1984) and ''The Beekeeper (1986 film), The Beekeeper'' (1986). Since then it has been regarded as Angelopoulos' greatest masterpiece, one of the best movies of 1988, of the 80s, of the 20th century, and one of the greatest and best Greek movies of all time. Plot Pubescent Voula (Tania Palaiologou) and her five-year-old brother Alexandros (Michalis Zeke) want to see their father, whom they have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theo Angelopoulos
Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (; (27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world. He started making films in 1967. In the 1970s he made a series of political films about modern Greece. Angelopoulos' films, described by Martin Scorsese as that of "a masterful filmmaker", are characterized by the slightest movement, slightest change in distance, long takes, and complex, carefully composed scenes. His cinematic method is often described as "sweeping" and "hypnotic." Angelopoulos has said that in his shots, “time becomes space and space becomes time.” The pauses between action or music are important to creating the total effect. In 1998 his film '' Eternity and a Day'' went on to win the Palme d'Or at the 51st edition of the Cannes Film Festival, and his films have been shown at many of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tania Palaiologou
Tania is usually a given name. It may refer to: Given name * Tânia Alves, Brazilian actress and singer * Tania Brishty, Bangladesh actress and model * Tania Bambaci (born 1990), Italian actress * Tania Belvederesi (born 1978), Italian cyclist * Tania Cagnotto (born 1985), Italian diver * Tania Marie Caringi (born 1986), Italian-American model * Princess Tania de Bourbon Parme, French designer * Tania de Jong, Dutch-born Australian soprano and entrepreneur * Tania Detomas (born 1985), Italian snowboarder * Tania Di Mario (born 1979), Italian water polo player * Tania Emery, British actress * Tania Gunadi, Indonesian-born actress * Tania Halse, South African politician * Tania Khalill, Brazilian actress * Tania Lacy, Australian comedian * Tania Lineham, New Zealand science teacher * Tania Libertad, Peruvian singer * Tania Mak (born 1986), Chinese triathlete * Tânia Martins (born 1957), Brazilian poet * Tania Nehme, Australian film editor * Tania Ramos González, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Lion
The Silver Lion (, also known as Silver Lion for Best Direction) is an annual award presented for best directing achievements in a feature film in the official competition section of the Venice Film Festival since 1998. The prize has been awarded irregularly and has gone through several changes of purpose. Between 1953 and 1994, the award was given infrequently to a number of films as second prize for those nominated for the Golden Lion. At various times, the Silver Lion has also been awarded for Silver Lion#Defunct Categories, debut films, short films, direction, and writing. Since 47th Venice International Film Festival, 1990, the Silver Lion has been presented to the director of a feature film in the official competition; Martin Scorsese was the first official winner of the award for ''Goodfellas'', while Brady Corbet is the most recent winner for The Brutalist, ''The Brutalist'' in 81st Venice International Film Festival, 2024. Silver Lion for Best Direction (1990–pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
45th Venice International Film Festival
The 45th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 29 August to 9 September 1988. Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winner was '' The Legend of the Holy Drinker'' directed by Ermanno Olmi. Jury The following people comprised the 1988 jury: *Sergio Leone, Italian filmmaker and producer * María Julia Bertotto, Argentine production and costume designer * Gilbert de Goldschmidt, French producer * Klaus Eder, West German film critic * Hannah Fischer, West German psychologist * Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Indian filmmaker * Lena Olin, Swedish actress * Natalya Ryazantseva, Soviet screenwriter * Harry Dean Stanton, American actor and musician * Lina Wertmüller, Italian filmmaker Official Sections The following films were selected to be screened: In Competition Special Events Orizzonti Venezia Notte Independent Sections Venice International Film Critics' Week The following feature films were selected to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César Franck
César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert Franck (; 10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a French Romantic music, Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in present-day Belgium. He was born in Liège (which at the time of his birth was part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands). He gave his first concerts there in 1834 and studied privately in Paris from 1835, where his teachers included Anton Reicha. After a brief return to Belgium, and a disastrous reception of an early oratorio ''Ruth'', he moved to Paris, where he married and embarked on a career as teacher and organist. He gained a reputation as a formidable musical improviser, and travelled widely within France to demonstrate new instruments built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. In 1859, he became titular organist at the church Basilica of St. Clotilde, Paris, Sainte-Clotilde, a position he retained for the rest of his life. He became professor at the Conservatoire de Paris, Paris Conservatoire in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic music, Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphony, symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music. His best-known works include the Overture#Concert overture, overture and incidental music for ''A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn), A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (which includes his "Wedding March (Mendelssohn), Wedding March"), the ''Symphony No. 4 (Mendelssohn), Italian'' and ''Symphony No. 3 (Mendelssohn), Scottish'' Symphonies, the oratorios ''St. Paul (oratorio), St. Paul'' and ''Elijah (oratorio), Elijah'', the ''The Hebrides (overture), Hebrides'' Overture, the mature Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn), Violin Concerto, the Octet (Mendelssohn), String Octet, and the melody used in the Christmas carol "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". Mendelssohn's ''Songs W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance (music)
The term romance (, , , , , , ) has a centuries-long history. Applied to narrative ballads in Spain, it came to be used by the 18th century for simple lyrical pieces not only for voice, but also for instruments alone. The ''Oxford Dictionary of Music'' states that "generally it implies a specially personal or tender quality". Instrumental music bearing the title "Romance" Typically, a Classical piece or movement called a "Romance" is in three, meaning three beats in the bar * Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven: two violin romances (''Romanzen'') for violin and orchestra, Violin Romance No. 1 (Beethoven), No. 1 G major, Op. 40; Violin Romance No. 2 (Beethoven), No. 2 in F major, Op. 50 take the form of a loose theme and variations * Johannes Brahms: ''Romanze'' in F major for piano, Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118 (Brahms), Op. 118, No. 5 (1893) * Max Bruch: "Romance for Viola and Orchestra in F" * Arthur Butterworth: Romanza for horn and string quartet with double bass ad libitum ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Travelling Players
''The Travelling Players'' (, translit. ''O Thiasos'', "The Troupe") is a 1975 Greek historical drama film written and directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos that traces the history of mid-20th-century Greece from 1939 to 1952. Many critics have described ''The Travelling Players'' as Angelopoulos' masterpiece; 16 critics and five directors voted it one of their favorite films in the British Film Institute's 2012 '' Sight & Sound'' poll. Plot A group of travelling players tour through Greece putting on a play called ''Golfo the Shepherdess''. The first level of the film shows them setting up, rehearsing, promoting and performing in fustanella this 1893 piece, a bucolic verse drama of love, betrayal and death. In the next level the film focuses on the historical events between 1939 and 1952 as they are experienced by the travelling players and as they affect the communities which they visit: the last year of Metaxas' authoritarian dictatorship, the war against the Italians, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Hanser Verlag
The Carl Hanser Verlag was founded in 1928 by Carl Hanser in Munich and is one of the few medium-sized publishing companies in the German-speaking area still owned by the founding family. History From the very beginning, the publishing house has been active in the two fields of fiction and literature, with fictional fiction being published from 1933 to 1946. The foundation stones of the publishing house were laid with the participation of the magazine "Betriebsstechnik", which was incorporated into the publishing house in 1933. The activities in the field of trade journals, with 21 publications, play an important role in addition to the literature and specialist books. The founder, Carl Hanser, withdrew from the active publishing management in 1976. In 1985 Carl Hanser died. Wolfgang Beisler, a grandson of Carl Hanser, became a member of the management in 1996. Michael Krüger was Managing Director of Carl Hanser Verlag until 2013 when Jo Lendle took over. In 1961, Carl Hans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerasimos Skiadaressis
Gerasimos Skiadaresis (; born 18 December 1960) is a Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ... actor. He also worked in theatre in E. Chatzikou School which he began in 1982. Skiadaresis married actress in 1997, and they have three children. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Skiadaresis Gerasimos 1960 births Living people 21st-century Greek male actors 20th-century Greek male actors Actors from Patras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Giannatos
Michalis Giannatos (; 11 July 1941 – 17 September 2013), alternatively spelled as Michael Yannatos, was a Greek actοr. Ηe was born in ( Konstantinoupoli), Turkey. He left the city for Greece in 1964 during the long expulsion of Istanbul Greeks. Career He studied in Konstantinos Demopoulos' school of drama and first appeared as a professional actor in Georgios Zervoulakos' film ''Oi stigmatismenoi'' (Greek: Οι στιγματισμένοι) in 1966. When still a student, he participated in the theatrical play ''Capetan Michalis'' (Greek: Καπετάν Μιχάλης) next to Manos Katrakis. During his long cinematic career, he appeared in close to 100 films, television series and plays. He was a regular in Theodoros Angelopoulos films since he was one of the director's favorite actors. After ''Megalexandros'' (Greek: Μεγαλέξανδρος) in 1981, Angelopoulos was always calling him to play in his movies. He was fluent in five languages; Greek, Turkish, Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vassilis Kolovos
Vasilis Kolovos (; born 10 December 1945) is a Greek actor. He appeared in more than forty films since 1971. Filmography References External links * 1945 births Living people Greek male film actors People from Domokos {{Greece-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
