About

The world needs cinema now more than ever. It may be the last important form of resistance to the deteriorating world in which we live… in dealing with borders, boundaries, the mixing of languages and cultures today, the refugees who are homeless and not wanted, I am trying to seek a new humanism, a new way.

The displacement of people and indifference refugees became an increasingly important subject in Angelopoulos's practice. With The Suspended Step of the Stork, be began a cycle of films that would passionately deal with man-made borders and the experience of dispossession. While reporting on the growing refugee situation on the Greek-Turkish border, a television reporter (Gregory Patrikareas) spots the face of a prominent politician thought dead. Disillusioned by Greece's political system, the politician had walked out of Parliament ten years earlier and completely disappeared. Trying to determine if the refugee (Marcello Mastroianni) is the missing statesman, the reporter contacts his wife (Jeanne Moreau) with the hope of reuniting the pair. The film's title reflects the lives of those living as non-citizens, as well as an image repeated throughout the film of one leg suspended in mid-air over the line demarcating two countries.

Ages 18+