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Are you afraid?

No, I'm not afraid.

Express 290

with destination Germany

now arriving on Track One.

Departure time 21:00.

Your attention please!

Express 290 for Germany

arriving on Track One.

You here again?

What are you doing here

night after night?

I dreamt about him

last night.

He seemed bigger than

the other times.

Come on!

LANDSCAPE IN THE MIS a film by

Theo Angelopoulos

Go to sleep!

When are we going away?

Go to sleep!

Will you tell

me the story?

Again?

In the beginning

was the darkness...

and then there

was light.

And the light was divided

from the darkness...

and the earth

from the sea...

and the rivers,

the lakes...

and the mountains

were made.

And then the flowers

and the trees...

the animals...

the birds...

It's Mummy!

This story will

never finish.

She keeps coming and

stopping us all the time.

Hullo Seagull!

Seagull!

Hullo, Seagull!

It's going to rain

and my feathers

will get wet.

I'm going away.

Where are you going?

To Germany.

Every day you go away

to Germany.

Alexander, we're late!

Goodbye!

What's Germany like?

In three minutes

Express 290

will be leaving

for Germany on Track One.

Come on!

We made it!

We made it!

"Dear father,

We are writing because

we have decided to find you.

We have never seen you

and we miss you.

We talk about you

all the time.

Mummy will be upset

that we've gone.

Deep down inside we love

her, don't think we don't...

but she doesn't

understand anything...

We don't know what

you look like...

Alexander says all sorts

of things...

He dreams about you.

We miss you so much.

Sometimes on my way home

from school...

I think I hear footsteps

behind me...

your footsteps...

and when I turn to look...

there is no one.

Then I feel very lonely.

We don't want to be

a burden to you...

we just want

to get to know you...

and then we'll go away

again.

If you send us a reply...

do it with the sound

of the train...

tatan... tatan...

tatan... tatan...

here I am...

I am waiting for you..."

Tickets please!

Hey, tickets!

Have you got tickets?

I don't know what

you're going to do...

just sort things out.

Sit down.

Where are you coming from?

Orchomenos?

Clear the track for the 290.

Announcing the arrival

of express 290.

Yes, yes, yes.

At least tell me

where you're going.

Cat got your tongues.

Hell, I'm not going to do

the cops' work for them.

We're going to our uncle.

So you've decided to speak.

Good girl!

Well?

How did you get here?

And is that Alexander?

What's up?

They were found on the

express for Germany...

without tickets

They said they were

coming to find you...

Come here, come here

and tell me what's going on.

Fine then,

everything's settled...

you don't need me any more.

Just a moment!

Look here...

I can't get involved.

I'm not getting involved.

Aren't you their uncle?

Yes... I am their mother's

brother...

but we've been out

of touch for years.

I can't take the

responsibility.

The whole thing's

my sister's fault.

Did she have to tell them that

their father is in Germany?

What father?

What Germany?

She doesn't know

who their father is!

There is no father...

there is no Germany.

The whole

thing's a big lie.

And for what reason?

She didn't want to tell

them they're illegitimate.

And this is the result!

But why Germany?

How should I know?

So that they have something

to dream about.

Look here... don't get me

involved in this.

Notify their mother.

You're lying!

You're lying!

Our father is in Germany!

You're lying!

Our father is in Germany!

You're lying!

Wait here!

It's snowing!

It's snowing!

It's snowing!

It's snowing!

He slipped the rope

round his neck...

He slipped the rope

round his neck...

He slipped the rope

round his neck...

"Dear father,

How were we able to wait

so long?

We've been travelling like

a leaf blowing in the wind.

What a strange world!

Suitcases... freezing railway

stations...

words and gestures

we don't understand...

and the night

which scares us!

But we are happy.

We are moving on."

Damn!

He's dying.

He's dead.

Hello there!

What are you doing

in this wilderness?

The town's still

a long way off.

There's lots of room

back there.

I don't eat children.

You haven't told me

where you're going.

Far away.

Okay, I'll drop you off

in town.

They're stage costumes.

And that one there's mine.

What do you do?

I make people laugh...

and cry.

D'you know how difficult

that is?

What d'you play?

My part.

Seven knocks on the stage...

then three...

and the curtain goes up...

The accordion player plays

the overture...

and I enter.

"The day dawned and Pleiades

shone in the sky."

What's Pleiades?

It is the morning star...

the dawn star...

which goes out

just before daybreak.

Let her rest, you must have

walked a long way.

Want to see something?

Come on!

- D'you like it?

- Is it yours?

There they are!

They're coming!

What happened?

Nothing... we couldn't get

theatre... Do something!

Orestes, grandfather will die

if we don't find a theatre.

Do something!

Okay,

I'll go to the Pantheon.

I'll meet you back here,

okay?

Did you see them?

They're sad.

Times have changed.

Everything's changed.

And ravaged by time

they wander stubbornly...

And ravaged by time they wander

stubbornly all over Greece...

all over Greece always

performing the same play.

I've got something to do.

Let her sleep...

I'll be back.

Is your name Orestes?

A sandwich please...

D'you have money?

No, but I'm hungry.

Yes, you're hungry, but you

known to eat you need money!

Even I pay when I'm hungry.

Yes, but I don't have any

money and I'm hungry.

I understand.

Listen, if you want to earn

money for your food...

you can clear all the

tables you see in here...

you'll work a little and

then you'll eat. Agreed?

All of them?

Clear them up.

Hey, what's going on here?

Seagull!

Seagull!

Seagull!

Where have you been?

He went by and

didn't see me.

Where have you been

all this time?

See... I earned it for you...

I worked.

You're funny kids,

you know that?

It's as if you don't care

about time going by...

and yet I know that you

are in a hurry to leave.

It's as if

you're going nowhere...

and yet you're going

somewhere.

You do know where

you're going, don't you?

You're funny too.

Me?

I'm a snail slithering

away into nothingness...

I don't know

where I'm going.

Once I thought I knew.

Where am I going?

The only thing I know

is that in a few days...

I'll be going into the army...

to do my military service.

What is it?

Can't see anything.

Look carefully.

Nothing.

Can't you see?

Behind the mist...

in the distance...

can't you see a tree?

No.

Me neither.

I was kidding.

Will you give it to me?

It's yours.

Where are we?

Good morning!

In the meantime the Turks

took Afion Karahisar...

it was in August of l922.

After the Germans left...

in the autumn of l944...

the front began to break...

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