A poetic film about the decline of a village/symbol and at the same time about the end of a particular historical landscape. An epic human drama about growing old in isolation. A film about loneliness and death.
The village of Beloiannisz was built by the political refugees of the Greek civil war 50 kilometres south of Budapest. By December 1950, 1,800 Greek partisans had settled there.
Today the village is emptying. The former political refugees and their children are returning freely to their homeland after 35 years of forced exile.
The film begins and ends at just this point in time. The protagonists in this story are the inhabitants of the Greek village in Hungary themselves. |