The Cinema of Angelopoulos and the refugee issue in the Balkans: The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991) Cover Image

Le cinéma d’Angelopoulos et la question des réfugiés dans les Balkans: Le pas suspendu de la cigogne (1991)
The Cinema of Angelopoulos and the refugee issue in the Balkans: The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)

Author(s): Patrick Werly
Subject(s): Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: Theo Angelopoulos; Greece; Albania; refugees; utopia;

Summary/Abstract: This article is about a film that follows the investigation of a Greek TV journalist, who seeks to find out more about the refugees stranded on Greece’s northern border near Albania, waiting indefinitely for papers. Angelopoulos shows not only the extreme misery caused by this situation, but also the difficulty of getting close to people, and the article follows the allegorical thread of the film. Faced with the refugee crisis and general indifference, the director attempts to formulate a utopia that lies in dialogue between strangers rather than in the construction of an ideal society.

  • Issue Year: 58/2025
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 95-103
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: French
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