The Beekeeper
1987 · ★ 7 · Dir. Theo Angelopoulos
Feeling himself an outsider in contemporary Greece, a schoolteacher Spyros leaves his job and family to return to his hometown, where he intends to take up the occupation of his ancestors as a beekeeper. Over the course of his road trip he visits the sites and friends of his childhood, hoping to gather the pollen of his past, but instead meets and becomes obsessed with a young hitchhiker who represents the empty hedonism of the present.
- Released
- 1987-08-21
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Language
- EL
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Marcello Mastroianni
Spyros
Nadia Mourouzi
Girl
Serge Reggiani
Sick Man
Jenny Roussea
Anna
Dinos Iliopoulos
Spyros' Friend
Vasia Panagopoulou
Spyros' Youngest Daughter
Dimitris Poulikakos
Eldest Daughter's Husband
Stamatis Gardelis
Mihalis Giannatos
Nikos Kouros
Spyros' Friend
Giannis Zavradinos
Youngest Daughter's Husband
Christoforos Nezer
Keywords
SuicideNostalgiaRoad movieNudityHitchhikerWeddingMelancholyGreeceRetirementBeehiveHitchhikingHusband wife estrangement
