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The weeping meadow [videorecording (DVD)].

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New Yorker Video, c2006.

Video Difference legacy collection.

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To Livadi pou dakryzei (Greek) [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (163 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2004.

In Greek with optional English subtitles.

Theo Angelopoulos ; producer, Phoebe Economopoulos ; screenplay, Theo Angelopoulos with Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris & Giorgio Silvagni ; directed by Theo Angelopoulos.

Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis, Vassilis Kolovos.

Spanning the years 1919-1949, begins with refugees from Odessa settling on a piece of land that was promised to them on Greece's misty northern plains. The foundling Eleni falls in love with her adoptive brother Alexis, but is forced to marry his widowed father. Eleni flees with Alexis to the nearby port of Thessaloniki. As the unrest of the 1930s pits fascism against leftism, Alexis, departs for America and leaves Eleni behind to bear the brunt of Greek war, political repression and civil war.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Economopoulos, Phoebe.

Angelopoulos, Thodōros, 1935-2012.

Guerra, Tonino.

Markaris, Petros, 1937-

Silvagni, Giorgio.

Aidini, Alexandra.

Poursanidis, Nikos.

Armenis, Giorgos.

Kolovos, Vassilis, 1946-

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