The Travelling Players (Ο Θίασος)

A group of traveling players peregrinates through Greece attempting to perform the popular erotic drama "Golfo The Shepherdess". In a first level the film focuses on the historical events between 1939 and 1952 as they are experienced by the traveling players and as they affect the villages which they visit: The last year of Metaxas' fascist dictatorship, the war against the Italians, the Nazi occupation, the liberation, the civil war between left and right wingers, the British and American interventionism in the Greek politics. In a second level the characters live their own drama of jealousy and betrayal, with its roots in the ancient myth of the House of Atreus. Agamemnon, a Greek refugee from Minor Asia, goes to war against the Italians in 1940, joins the resistance against the Germans, and is executed by them after being betrayed by Clytemnestra and Aegisthos.

Cast:
Eva Kotamanidou
Aliki Georgouli
Stratos Pahis
Vangelis Kazan

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Writer: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Runtime: 230 min
Genre: Drama, History, War
Language: Greek
Production Year: 1975

The film will be screened within the framework of the film festival "Marking Greek Cinema: Angelopoulos / Tassios", organised by the Photography and Cinematography Club of Ayioi Omoloyites Cultural Workshop.