The Travelling Players

Directed by Theo Angelopoulos

Produced by Giorgos Papalios Productions

A sprawling, intellectually demanding chronicle of a theatre troupe's dissolution across thirteen years of Greek political upheaval, where personal tragedy and historical catastrophe become inseparable.

A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.