Pantelis Voulgaris – Ola einai dromos AKA It’s a Long Road (1998)
Synopsis
Pantelis Voulgaris directed this three-part Greek anthology film in which three middle-aged men confront their personal demons. In the 40-minute “A Silver Coin on the Lips,” a Macedonian archaeologist (Dimitris Katalifos) stumbles onto the remains of a soldier with a coin on his lips, payment to the ferryman Charon of legend; this discovery reminds him of his son’s death, and he departs for the border outpost where the death occurred. A 34-minute segment, “The Last of the Lesser Whites,” takes place in Thrace where ornithologists meet with the game warden (Thanassis Vengos) who watches over a beautiful wilderness area with thousands of birds. A Norwegian woman in the group seeks the only known survivor of rare Bergen geese, but a poacher shoots it. The 40-minute “Vietnam” follows a rich factory owner (Giorgos Armenis), a man in such a state of emotional torment after his wife of many years leaves him that he drunkenly destroys a bar named Vietnam. Shown at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival.
Bob Stewart, Allmovie
Ola.Einai.Dromos.AKA.Its.a.Long.Road.1998.1080p.CINOBO.WEB-DL.DD2.0.H.264-Gloft.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 2 h 0 min
Size: 5.15 GiB
Video
Codec: h264
Resolution: 1920x1080
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Frame rate: 24.000 fps
Bit rate: 5 892 kb/s
BPP: 0.118
Audio
#1: Greek 2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 kb/s (Greek)
Language(s):Greek
Subtitles:English Forced, French, German
