The Beekeeper (1986 film)

The Beekeeper
Film poster
Directed byTheodoros Angelopoulos
Written byTheodoros Angelopoulos
Tonino Guerra
Dimitris Nollas
Produced byTheodoros Angelopoulos
StarringMarcello Mastroianni
CinematographyGiorgos Arvanitis
Edited byTakis Yannopoulos
Music byEleni Karaindrou
Release date
  • 23 October 1986 (1986-10-23)
Running time
122 minutes
CountryGreece
LanguageGreek

The Beekeeper (Greek: Ο Μελισσοκόμος, translit. O Melissokomos) is a 1986 Greek drama art film[1] directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos. The film is the second installment in Angelopoulos's "trilogy of silence", preceded by Voyage to Cythera and followed by Landscape in the Mist. Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman hailed The Beekeeper as a "masterpiece".[2]

House of Florina where the scenes were filmed. The Prespes lakes and Florina are the setting for many films by Theodoros Angelopoulos.

The Beekeeper was selected for the 43rd Venice International Film Festival.[3] The film was the first of Angelopoulos's to use an already well-known actor, in this case, Marcello Mastroianni, who by that time had already won the Best Actor award at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival once and had been nominated twice for the Best Actor at the 35th Academy Awards and the 50th Academy Awards.

  1. ^ "O MELISSOKOMOS (THE BEEKEEPER) (1986)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Θ. Αγγελόπουλος: πέθανε ο ποιητής των εικόνων". Edu4u.gr. 25 January 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Venice Film Festival (1986)". IMDb. 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2016.