O thiasos 1975

Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times: The Travelling Players is one of the major neglected movie masterpieces of our times. Read more

Richard Eder, New York Times: Length is part of its problem. A much greater problem is that the political message that is only one of the threads in the first part thickens into hawser dimensions, strangling the film and the audience along with it. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Even the most clueless outsider can still soak in the magisterial beauty of Angelopoulos' images, which mournfully depict corroded buildings and emptied streets while celebrating the country's enduring natural beauty. Read more

David Perry, Time Out: The stately pace of the film soon becomes compulsive; and the shabby provincial Greece of rusting railway tracks and flaking facades which the slow camera examines is visually beguiling. Read more