Theo Angelopoulos - Eternity and a Day (1998)

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With this upload i will say to the Avax Community: Thank you! Special thanks goes to all the uploaders, that offers here not only masterpieces but also high quality video rips. And when i´m saying high quality, than i mean 1.4GB or higher filesize videofiles without macroblocks.

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I am very sorry for this small 1.4GB rip but i didn´t make it. The Video quality could be better. The one file has a videobitrate about 1319Kbps and a Qf 0.215 and the other file 1463Kbps and a Qf 0.238. Sound is MP3 125Kb. Mpeg4 Codec: XVid 1.0.3. I think it can be watched on a TV or to make first contact with Theo Angelopoulos films. But i wouldn´t use this rip to archive it or watch it on a big LCD. But that´s my opinion.

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This rip is a good example that 1.4GB Filesize is not enough. Some films need high videobitrate and the filesize doesn´t matter at all! I will watch good films and not a macroblockfilm that fits a CD. So my request to all uploaders is: Make high quality videorips. The Quality have to come first, then the filesize. And no macroblocks should be visible. At least, ignore the people that haven´t a dvd-burner.
Again: This 2 CD rip is O.K., but it could be much better. I watched it, but i won´t archive it because of the quality.

PM. to FNB47:
Second RC Account is ready and waiting for your Hiroshi Inagaki - Miyamoto Musashi (Samurai Trilogy 1-3) upload as DVD5 Version. Can i hope for next week (3thd Week)?

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Titel: ("Mia aioniotita kai mia mera" or "L'Éternité et un jour" or "L'Eternità e un giorno" or "Eternity and a Day")

On a rainy Sunday in Thessaloniki, Alexander, a writer, prepares to leave his lifelong home by the sea. Tomorrow, Alexander is going into the hospital, from where he knows he will never leave. He finds letters from his long-dead wife Anna, and instantly becomes ensnared by memories. He realises how much she loved him, and how he took her love for granted. Driven as he was by his passion for writing, he feels that lost moments of happiness haunt him from an irretrievable past. But his sudden meeting with an Albanian boy seems to offer the possibility of recapturing those moments. Alexander attempts to reunite the boy with his grandmother in Albania, and so begins a mysterious journey and a touching relationship between the writer and the child…



Theo Angelopoulos creates a stunningly haunting, seamless fusion of reality, nostalgia, and dreams in Eternity and a Day. Using long takes and reverse tracking, Angelopoulos creates a visual metaphor for the isolation of the soul: the hallway shot of Alexandre after Urania's departure; a team of window washers descending on cars at a stop light; the framed shot of Anna by the gate of the summer house. Moreover, recurrent images of abandoned buildings, repeated flights of Albanian refugees across the border, and the unfinished poem, reflect Alexandre's regret over his own unresolved actions. Figuratively, Alexandre, too, is an exile - longing to recapture an irretrievable past - unable to return home.


The film won the Golden Palm at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.


Direction: T. Angelopoulos.
Screenplay: T. Angelopoulos, in collaboration with Tonino Guerra, P. Markaris.
Cinematography: Yorgos Arvanitis, A. Sinanos.
Editing: Yiannis Tsitsopoulos.
Sound: N. Papadimitriou.
Sets: Yorgos Ziakas.
Costumes: Yorgos Patsas.
Music: Eleni Karaindrou.
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renault, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Achilleas Skevis.
Production: T. Angelopoulos, Greek Film Centre, Paradis Films (Paris), Intermedias S.A., La Sept Cinema, CANAL +, Classic SRL, Istituto Luce, WDR&ARTE.
35mm Colour 134'



"Angelopoulos can be counted as one of the few filmmakers in cinema's first hundred years who compel us to redefine what we feel cinema is and can be." ANDREW HORTON