The Weeping Meadow

“The Weeping Meadow” is the first film in Theo Angelopoulos’ “Trilogy” that tells of the fate of the Greek people through the relationship between two people, a relationship that spans the 20th century all the way to the early 21st. The first part is set in Greece between 1919 and 1949, beginning with the entry of the Red Army into Odessa and the flight of the city’s Greek community and ends in 1949 with the end of the Greek civil war. Shooting was done in Lake Kerkini, where an entire village was built as a film set and then sunk in the waters.