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Thief or Reality

(Unclassified 15+)

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Overview

“Reality robs you of your dreams and you have to rob it in order to dream. A darkly optimistic film. Three versions of just one day. Three characters trapped in parallel universes. The invasion of the Thief will unite them. Each point of view produces a different story: fate-randomness-free will. What do they have in common? Mortality.

What I spent, I had. What I saved, I lost. What I gave, I have.

An experimental-allegorical film. Three different people: a sculptress of funereal monuments, an actor preparing for Sophocles’ Antigone, and a mother who has lost her child, experience three different versions of reality - with a fourth character, a thief, providing the connecting link.

From Antoinetta Angelidi

Main themes of the film are the multiplicity of reality and the consciousness of mortality. Its narration is a triple interpretation of reality. Three versions of different duration and style, of a single day. In each version the events differ, because our perception changes the world. Each version begins with a game (cards-dice-chess) and ends with a procession, evoking the chorus of ancient tragedy. The film concludes in a conversation, where all the characters comment on their roles, in a meta-linguistic game of self-awareness.

Year:
2001
Rating:
Unclassified 15+
Director:
Antoinetta Angelidi
Cast:
Evri Sofroniadou, Parthenopi Bouzouri, Nikos Pantelidis, Angela Brouskou
Duration:
80 minutes
Language:
Greek with English subtitles

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