movie poster for THE SUSPENDED STEP OF THE STORK

Flicks ID

91

Cert

15

Running time

136 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

THE SUSPENDED STEP OF THE STORK (1991)

THEODOROS ANGELOPOULOS

Plot

Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Among them, he notices an old man and thinks he his an important greek politician who disappeared misteriously a few years ago. Back in Athens, he asks this politician's former wife to come and identify him. A slow and dry meditation about inhumanity of borders.