Ulysses' Gaze

Ulysses' Gaze

2h 49m 7.4/10

Overview

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

Director

Theo Angelopoulos

Top Billed Cast

Harvey Keitel

Harvey Keitel

A

Maia Morgenstern

Maia Morgenstern

Ulysses' Wives

Thanasis Veggos

Thanasis Veggos

Taxi Driver

Erland Josephson

Erland Josephson

Ivo Levy

Giorgos Mihalakopoulos

Giorgos Mihalakopoulos

Nikos

Dora Volanaki

Dora Volanaki

Old Woman

Reviews

deepkino

10/11/2025

/10

This is a journey film—both internal and external—set across Albania, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Greece. The story follows a director on a quest to find the lost film by the Manakis brothers, purported to be Greece's first motion picture. However, his search leads him not to a cinematic treasure, but to the slow death agony of the Balkans themselves. His journey culminates not in discovery, but in depression, pain, and a profound sense of defeat—a feeling powerfully symbolized by the recurring image of a fragmented statue of Lenin.

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