Landscape in the Mist (Topio stin omichli)

Are you afraid?

No, I'm not afraid.

Express 290 with destination Germany

now arriving on Track One.

Departure time 21:00.

Your attention please! Express 290 for Germany

arriving on Track One.

You here again?

What are you doing here night after night?

I dreamt about him last night.

He seemed bigger than the other times.

Come on!

LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST

a film by Theo Angelopoulos.

Go to sleep!

When are we going away?

Go to sleep!

Will you tell me the story?

Again?

In the beginning was the darkness...

and then there was light.

And the light was divided from the darkness...

and the earth from the sea...

and the rivers, the lakes...

and the mountains were made.

And then the flowers and the trees...

the animals... the birds...

It's Mummy!

This story will never finish.

She keeps coming and stopping us all the time.

Hullo Seagull!

Seagull!

Hullo, Seagull!

It's going to rain

and my feathers will get wet.

I'm going away.

Where are you going?

To Germany.

Every day you go away to Germany.

Alexander, we're late!

Goodbye!

What's Germany like?

In three minutes.

Express 290 will be leaving

for Germany on Track One.

Come on!

We made it!

We made it!

"Dear father,."

We are writing because we have decided to find you.

We have never seen you and we miss you.

We talk about you all the time.

Mummy will be upset that we've gone.

Deep down inside we love her, don't think we don't...

but she doesn't understand anything...

We don't know what you look like...

Alexander says all sorts of things...

He dreams about you.

We miss you so much.

Sometimes on my way home from school...

I think I hear footsteps behind me...

your footsteps...

and when I turn to look... there is no one.

Then I feel very lonely.

We don't want to be a burden to you...

we just want to get to know you...

and then we'll go away again.

If you send us a reply...

do it with the sound of the train...

tatan... tatan...

tatan... tatan...

"here I am... I am waiting for you..."

Tickets please!

Hey, tickets!

Have you got tickets?

I don't know what you're going to do...

just sort things out.

Sit down.

Where are you coming from?

Orchomenos?

Clear the track for the 290.

Announcing the arrival of express 290.

Yes, yes, yes.

At least tell me where you're going.

Cat got your tongues.

Hell, I'm not going to do the cops' work for them.

We're going to our uncle.

So you've decided to speak.

Good girl!

Well?

How did you get here?

And is that Alexander?

What's up?

They were found on the express for Germany...

without tickets.

They said they were coming to find you...

Come here, come here and tell me what's going on.

Fine then, everything's settled...

you don't need me any more.

Just a moment!

Look here... I can't get involved.

I'm not getting involved.

Aren't you their uncle?

Yes... I am their mother's brother...

but we've been out of touch for years.

I can't take the responsibility.

The whole thing's my sister's fault.

Did she have to tell them that their father is in Germany?

What father? What Germany?

She doesn't know who their father is!

There is no father... there is no Germany.

The whole thing's a big lie.

And for what reason?

She didn't want to tell them they're illegitimate.

And this is the result!

But why Germany?

How should I know?

So that they have something to dream about.

Look here... don't get me involved in this.

Notify their mother.

You're lying! You're lying!

Our father is in Germany!

You're lying! Our father is in Germany!

You're lying!

Wait here!

It's snowing!

It's snowing!

It's snowing!

It's snowing!

He slipped the rope round his neck...

He slipped the rope round his neck...

He slipped the rope round his neck...

"Dear father,."

How were we able to wait so long?

We've been traveling like a leaf blowing in the wind.

What a strange world!

Suitcases... freezing railway stations...

words and gestures we don't understand...

and the night which scares us!

But we are happy.

"We are moving on."

Damn!

He's dying.

He's dead.

Hello there!

What are you doing in this wilderness?

The town's still a long way off.

There's lots of room back there.

I don't eat children.

You haven't told me where you're going.

Far away.

Okay, I'll drop you off in town.

They're stage costumes.

And that one there's mine.

What do you do?

I make people laugh...

and cry.

D'you know how difficult that is?

What d'you play?

My part.

Seven knocks on the stage...

then three...

and the curtain goes up...

The accordion player plays the overture...

and I enter.

"The day dawned and Pleiades shone in the sky."

What's Pleiades?

It is the morning star... the dawn star...

which goes out just before daybreak.

Let her rest, you must have walked a long way.

Want to see something? Come on!

- D'you like it? - Is it yours?

There they are! They're coming!

What happened?

Nothing... we couldn't get theater... Do something!

Orestes, grandfather will die if we don't find a theater.

Do something!

Okay, I'll go to the Pantheon.

I'll meet you back here, okay?

Did you see them?

They're sad.

Times have changed.

Everything's changed.

And ravaged by time they wander stubbornly...

And ravaged by time they wander stubbornly all over Greece...

all over Greece always performing the same play.

I've got something to do.

Let her sleep...

I'll be back.

Is your name Orestes?

A sandwich please... D'you have money?

No, but I'm hungry.

Yes, you're hungry, but you known to eat you need money!

Even I pay when I'm hungry.

Yes, but I don't have any money and I'm hungry.

I understand.

Listen, if you want to earn money for your food...

you can clear all the tables you see in here...

you'll work a little and then you'll eat.Agreed?

All of them?