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The Travelling Players
GREECE · 1975

The Travelling Players

Theodoros Angelopoulos
Greek history and politics theatre and performance war and persecution exile and displacement cyclical violence
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Synopsis

A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.

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