The Dust of Time
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| Directed by | Theodoros Angelopoulos |
| Produced by | Phoebe Economopoulous |
| Written by | Theodoros Angelopoulos |
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Willem Dafoe Irène Jacob Bruno Ganz Michel Piccoli Christiane Paul |
| Music by | Eleni Karaindrou |
| Cinematography | Andreas Sinanos |
| Edited by | Yannis Tistsopoulos Giorgos Chelidonides |
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125 minutes |
| Country | Greece |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $13,000,000 |
The Dust of Time (Greek: Η Σκόνη του Χρόνου) is a 2008 Greek drama film written and directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos, starring Willem Dafoe, Irène Jacob, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli, and Christiane Paul.
The film is the second of an unfinished trilogy started with Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow in 2004. The last part of the trilogy had the working title The Other Sea. The trilogy was left uncompleted by Angelopoulos' unexpected death in January 2012.
In 1999, an American film director of Greek descent named A (Willem Dafoe) receives a phone call from his melancholic daughter at the Cinecittà studio. He rushes back to his apartment in Rome, where he finds a letter his mother, Eleni (Irène Jacob), wrote to his father, Spyros (Michel Piccoli), in 1956.
In 1953, Eleni and Jacob (Bruno Ganz), a Jew of German descent, watch the newsreel in Temirtau. Spyros gets there. Spyros and Eleni jump onto a tram, leaving Jacob alone. The tram arrives at the public square in front of the government office, where Stalin's death is announced to the people. That night, immediately after Spyros and Eleni make love on the tram, the two are arrested and taken away separately.
In 1956, in Siberia, Eleni puts her three-year-old son on the train bound for Moscow, where Jacob's older sister will take care of him.
On New Year's Eve in 1973, Eleni and Jacob cross the border from Hungary to Austria. After celebrating the New Year together, Eleni ends her relationship with Jacob, encouraging him to go on to Israel.
In summer 1974, Eleni finally finds Spyros in the suburbs of New York. However, she leaves without saying anything to him after she realized that he is already married to another woman.
In winter 1974, Eleni crosses the border from the United States to Canada. There, she and A meet again for the first time in many years. A drives Spyros over to a bar in Ontario, where Eleni works. Spyros enters the bar and makes an offer of marriage to Eleni. The two hug and kiss each other.
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