【内容简介】
Winner of the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival, O Megalexandros is acclaimed Greek director Theo Angelopoulos' (Landscape in the Mist, Ulysses' Gaze) examination of the cult of personality. Set in greece years after the Paris Commune, it is a tale of socialism first deformed and then destroyed by an authoritarian leader. "Through his lens, Angelopoulos'camera which makes O Megalexandros so powerful that the viewer cannot break away from the screen. This kind of filmaking, so personal and unique in its particuarity, tends to the roots of cinema. This is precisely what creates the impression of freshness and strength. As for myself, watching this film I deeply felt the pleasure of cinema in the most absolute of the term." - Akira Kurosawa
