Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
Overview
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.
Cast
Harvey Keitel
A
Erland Josephson
Ivo Levy
Maia Morgenstern
Ulysses' Wives
Thanasis Veggos
Taxi Driver
Giorgos Mihalakopoulos
Nikos
Dora Volanaki
Old Woman
Mania Papadimitriou
Mother
Giorgos Konstas
Father
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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.
October 11, 2025
