18 · 1986 · 2h 20m
Original title Ο Μελισσοκόμος (Greek)Directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos
Stars Marcello Mastroianni
Aging Spiros (Marcello Mastroianni) embarks on a journey throughout Greece with his bees in search of a suitable spring climate for pollination and thus the production of honey. He leaves behind family and responsibility for this trip but brings with him his sadness. Along the way he encounters a much younger girl (Nadia Mourouzi) hitchhiking and offers transport, and from there their relationship evolves from their hopeless disconnect with the world...
"Mellifluous"
The film is the second instalment in Angelopoulos's "trilogy of silence", preceded by Voyage to Cythera and followed by Landscape in the Mist. It was nominated for the Golden Lion in the 43rd Venice International Film Festival. The film was the first of Angelopoulos's to use an already well-known actor, in this case, Marcello Mastroianni, who by the time had won the Best Actor award at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival once and had been nominated for the Best Actor at the 50th Academy Awards once.
