The Beekeeper (1986 film)
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| Directed by | Theodoros Angelopoulos |
| Written by | Theodoros Angelopoulos Tonino Guerra Dimitris Nollas |
| Produced by | Theodoros Angelopoulos |
| Starring | Marcello Mastroianni |
| Cinematography | Giorgos Arvanitis |
| Edited by | Takis Yannopoulos |
| Music by | Eleni Karaindrou |
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Running time | 122 minutes |
| Country | Greece |
| Language | Greek |
The Beekeeper (Greek: Ο Μελισσοκόμος, translit. O Melissokomos) is a 1986 Greek drama art film directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos. The film is the second installment in Angelopoulos's "trilogy of silence", preceded by Voyage to Cythera and followed by Landscape in the Mist. Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman hailed The Beekeeper as a "masterpiece".
The Beekeeper was selected for the 43rd Venice International Film Festival. The film was the first of Angelopoulos's to use an already well-known actor, in this case, Marcello Mastroianni, who by that time had already won the Best Actor award at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival once and had been nominated twice for the Best Actor at the 35th Academy Awards and the 50th Academy Awards.