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Ο θίασος (The Travelling Players) (1975)

APGRD id
3870
Start date
12th May 1975
Production Media
Film
Languages
  • English
  • German
  • Greek, Modern (1453-)
Associated ancient works
Companies
Papalios Productions
APGRD Notes
A film in multiple segments following a group of traveling actors in Greece. One sequence sets the tragic narratives of the house of Atreus amidst the military conflicts of the 1940's.
URI
https://apgrd.classics.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/3870
Related Content
Person Credit Notes
Theodoros Angelopoulos Director
Theodoros Angelopoulos Writer
Evangelia Kotamanidou Actor Electra
Aliki Georgouli Actor Mother, the Clytemnestra figure
Stratos Pachis Actor Father, the Agamemnon figure
Maria Vasileiou Actor Chrysothemis
Vangelis Kazan Actor Aegisthus
Petros Zarkadis Actor Orestes
Kyriakos Kativanos Actor Pylades
Ioannis Firios Actor Accordionist
Nina Papazaphiropoulou Actor Old Woman
Alekos Boubis [Mpoumpis] Actor Old Man
Kostas Stiliaris Actor Militia Leader
Grigoris Evangelatos Actor Poet
Loukianos Kilaidonis Music
Giorgios Arvanitis (1941-) Cinematography
Mikes Karapiperis (1933-1991) Scenographer
Title Year Format Content
Playing by the Censors' Rules? Classical Drama Revived under the Greek Junta (1967-1974) Offprint article
Reconstructions - Theo Angelopoulos Cast list & credits
Stills from the film Print-out image
The Travelling Players - film (Tape 1 of 2) Videotape recording
The Travelling Players - film (Tape 2 of 2) Videotape recording
Theo Angelopoulos: A Retrospective Festival programme festival programme
Title Contributors Year Format Pagination
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium Katharine Worth, Amanda Wrigley, Lorna Hardwick, Kathleen Riley, Pantelis Michelakis, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Helene Foley, Froma I. Zeitlin, Peter G. McC. Brown, David Wiles, Fiona Macintosh, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin, Timberlake Wertenbaker (1951-) Book
Rolling out the Red Carpet: Power 'Play' in Modern Greek Versions of the Myth of Orestes from the 1960s and 1970s. Part II Gonda A. H. Van Steen Offprint
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004 Inga-Stina Ewbank, Susanna Phillippo, Dmitry Trubotshkin, Margaret Reynolds, Yopie Prins, Amanda Wrigley, Lorna Hardwick, Michael Ewans, Massimo Fusillo, Pantelis Michelakis, Helene Foley, Pat E. Easterling AKA Patricia, Rush Rehm, Fiona Macintosh, Anton Bierl, Pierre Judet de la Combe, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin, J. Michael Walton Book