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Ulysses' Gaze (1995)

7.4 | Oct 12, 1995 (GR) | Drama, History, War | 02:49

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.

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Screenplay, Director, Producer
Assistant Director
Director of Photography
Producer
In Memory Of
Co-Writer
Producer
Original Story
Producer, Co-Writer

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deepkino
N/A | Oct 11, 2025
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.