CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

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Ulysses' Gaze posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1995 2h 49m GRC

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

Successful Greek filmmaker, A (Harvey Keitel), is returning home and sets out on an epic journey across the battered Balkans in search of three lost reels of film by the Manaki brothers, the pioneering photographers who introduced movies into the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Erland Josephson

Erland Josephson

Ivo Levy

Γιάννης Ζαβραδινός

Δώρα Χρυσικού

Δώρα Χρυσικού

Harvey Keitel

Harvey Keitel

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