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The trailer for Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow

• "'Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow' is the first of three films in which Theo Angelopoulos plans to relate the past century of Greek history. The film begins in 1919 as a contingent of Greek refugees fleeing the Red Army arrives near Thessaloniki. One family, headed by the imposing Spyros (Kolovos), has brought Eleni (Aidini), an orphaned young girl, with them. Years later, she elopes with Spyros's son (Poursanidis), initiating a series of events that evoke classical Greek tragedy. After a brief period of happiness, Eleni's husband emigrates to the United States in search of a better life for the family, leaving his young bride alone to cope with the passage of time, the dangers of World War II and the betrayals of the Greek Civil War."