Eternity and a Day

Another film of excellent Greek director - Theo Angelopoulos.

The film was directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos in 1998. It won the Palme d'Or and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

Alexander (Bruno Ganz) is a popular, seriously ill writer. He lives in his family's ancestral home near Thessaloniki, but his dauther wants to sell this house, where he spent all his life. Aleksander looks back on his wasted life with regret. He uncovers a long-forgotten love letters from his late wife, and this discovery carries him back into his past life, to which he must now bid a final farewell. “How long does tomorrow last?” he asks, and the answer is: eternity and a day.

One day Alexander saves a six- or seven-year-old Albanian boy (Achileas Skevis) from a gang that sells children to wealthy Greeks who can't adopt legally. Alexander is trying to return the child to his grandmother in Albania, but after all it turns out that boy lied to him, and his grandmother does not exist. The old man and the boy start a journey by bus, where they met all sorts of people. This trip helps Alexander to analyse all his life and how to deal with the past.

Here you have the movie trailer