Landscape in the Mist

Two Greek children, Voula and her younger brother Alexandros, leave home and set out across the country in search of the father they have never met. Their mother has told them he lives in Germany, and they take that claim at face value, believing a train will carry them there. What follows is a long journey through Greece, in which the children have little money and the distance to their goal only seems to grow. Along the way they meet adults whose intentions toward them range from indifferent to exploitative; only a young actor named Orestis shows them real kindness and helps them on their way. The search itself becomes the story, as the idea of the absent father holds the two of them at the border between childhood and adolescence.

Theo Angelopoulos directed the film, released in 1988, and wrote the screenplay with Tonino Guerra and Thanasis Valtinos. It followed his 1986 film The Beekeeper in his filmography, and the cast includes Michalis Zeke as Alexandros, Tania Paleologou as Voula and Stratos Tzortzoglou as Orestis. The production was a Greek, Italian and French co-production.

On IMDb the film holds a critics' rating of 6.7/10 from 14 reviews, while on TMDB it has a score of 7.6/10 from 238 votes, suggesting general viewers respond to it more warmly than reviewers did. It runs 125 minutes.