The beekeeper [videorecording] / [directed by Theo Angelopoulos].

[U.K.] : Artificial Eye, [2010].

1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col.

Mastroianni plays Spyros, a schoolmaster of late middle-age who, like his father before him, is also a beekeeper. Disenchanted and unfulfilled by his life, Spyros takes leave of his wife and grown children to embark on a solitary journey in search of the emerging springtime flowers for his cherished beehives. Moving from village to village, he encounters a young girl hitchhiker who awakens in him feelings that start to become an obsession. Charged with quiet emotional intensity, The Beekeeper is a moving and powerful film about a man s struggle to find release from the spectre of the past.

Also known as: O melissokomos

Images / Video & Film

Greek, Modern (1453- )

January 20, 2011

Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani, Jenny Roussea.

DVD ; PAL ; region w

BBFC certificate: 18.