The Dust of Time

The Dust of Time Greek is a 2008 Greek drama film written and directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos, starring Willem Dafoe, Irne Jacob, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli, and Christiane Paul.

In 1999, an American film director of Greek descent named A Willem Dafoe receives a phone call from his melancholic daughter at the Cinecitt studio. He rushes back to his apartment in Rome, where he finds a letter his mother, Eleni Irne Jacob, wrote to his father, Spyros Michel Piccoli, in 1956.In 1953, Eleni and Jacob Bruno Ganz, a Jew of German descent, watch the newsreel in Temirtau. Spyros gets there. Spyros and Eleni jump onto a tram, leaving Jacob alone. The tram arrives at the public square in front of the government office, where Stalins death is announced to the people. That night, immediately after Spyros and Eleni make love on the tram, the two are arrested and taken away separately. ........

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