The Beekeeper (film)

• Dinos Illiopoulos: Spyros ' friend
• Marcello Mastroianni: Spyros
• Nadia Mourouzi: The young hitchhiker
• Serge Reggiani: sick man
• Jenny Rousseau: Spyros ' Wife
• Athinodoros Prousalis
• Dora Volanaki

The Beekeeper is a film director Theo Angelopoulos of, shot in 1986 in Greece. Dating by Tonino Guerra screenplay is based on motifs of the novel to the death of a beekeeper by Lars Gustafsson.

Action

The aging teacher and recreational beekeepers Spyros has. After divorcing his wife and marrying his daughter had enough of life, from his family and old friends He wants to leave his village and takes one last trip to the south with a truck full of beehives. Along the way he takes a fascinating young hitchhiker to a strange relationship is formed, which, however, can not be deterred from his death wish him.

Supplement:

The plot is very subjective in the film, images, music and impressions to the audience room for interpretation. Spyros thinks back to the time when he was happy. He is divorced. Like every year he undertakes a journey with his bees in the south. He travels with a group of other breeders every year, but every year it will be less. He is aware as it did at the wedding that he is old and is getting lonely. He visited the house where he grew up. The house looks old, dilapidated. It is deserted and lifeless. His life is so like that of the house. Along the way he encounters the fascinating young hitchhiker and he is not sure about his feelings: His feelings are a mixture of father feelings and love. You could be his daughter. She gives him but boost the feeling of being able to change his life, to start anew. For moments he seems happy. But then she leaves him, he's too old. This throws him completely off track and he destroyed the last thing he was still located: its colonies. He gives them the blame (or the bee breeding in itself) for his unhappy life or he is aware that he soon may no longer indulge his hobby as his friends because he is too old. His future life no longer seems to him worth living his life the happiness of past years has disappeared.

Music

The music for the film was composed by Eleni Karaindrou; Jan Garbarek plays with his saxophone case a supporting role.

Reviews

" When Théo Angelopoulos the multidimensionality of the cinema the same in many ways becomes a reality: Not only does he designed the rooms and their staging like no other, with him is also the 4th dimension to the cinematic means of expression: the time. His long, entire scenes spanning settings seem to want to release the film from the yoke assembly. "

" A moving, philosophical richer film whose quiet melancholy reflected in the barren narrative and in the pregnant match the outstanding lead actor. "

" Old master Theo Angelopoulos, Greece's most significant filmmakers staged a strict, serious and very melancholy drama about the loneliness, the Marcello Mastroianni presented in a starring role as the main actor. The motif of love and death permeates this poetic masterpiece. For the soundtrack of the Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou dominated the melancholic saxophone play of Norwegian jazz musician Jan Garbarek. "