Eternity and a Day

Alexandros, a celebrated Greek writer, is terminally ill and preparing to leave the seaside house where he has long lived. As he sorts through what remains, he finds letters from his late wife, Anna, recalling a summer day thirty years earlier. Their words set him on a journey in which past and present blur, and out of this drifting he forms an unlikely bond with a young Albanian refugee boy he helps across the border.

Theo Angelopoulos directed and co-wrote the film, the fourth of his features listed in the facts, arriving between Landscape in the Mist and the anthology To Each His Own Cinema. He shares writing credit with Tonino Guerra and Petros Markaris, and producing credit with Éric Heumann and Amedeo Pagani. Bruno Ganz plays Alexandros, with Isabelle Renauld as Anna, Fabrizio Bentivoglio as a poet, and Achileas Skevis as the child; twenty cast members and forty-four crew are credited.

Released in October 1998 across a German, Greek, Italian and French production, the film runs 133 minutes. Its critical rating of 7.3 out of 10, drawn from 22 reviews, sits closer to the TMDB audience figure of 7.8 from 224 votes than to the much smaller, markedly lower IMDb sample of 3.9 from 23 votes.