The Beekeeper (Ο Μελισσοκόμος), dir. Theo Angelopoulos, Greece / France 1986, Greek with English subtitles, 117 min.
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Following his daughters wedding and his retirement from teaching, a beekeeper embarks upon a journey across Greece with his bees, just as his father and grandfather did before him. However, his melancholic solitude is quickly interrupted when he picks up a young hitchhiker.
A haunting meditation on the necessity of letting go, moving on or as the young hitchhiker puts it 'taking off', the second part of Theo Angelopoulos's trilogy of silence is an unsurprisingly resplendent example of the power of sound in cinema, from Eleni Karaindrou's haunting score to a carefully constructed soundtrack of on and off-screen action.
A haunting meditation on the necessity of letting go, moving on or as the young hitchhiker puts it 'taking off', the second part of Theo Angelopoulos's trilogy of silence is an unsurprisingly resplendent example of the power of sound in cinema, from Eleni Karaindrou's haunting score to a carefully constructed soundtrack of on and off-screen action.
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06:30 pm
Thu, 13 Nov 2025
Cinema 1
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