"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns
to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his
extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies
elsewhere-the mythical reels of the very first film shot by the
Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly
criss-crossed the Balkans and, without regard for national and ethnic
strife, recorded the region's history and customs. Did these
primitive, never-developed images really exist? If so, where are they?
- "Why 'A'? It's an alphabetical choice. Every filmmaker remembers the
first time he looked through the viewfinder of a camera. It is a
moment that is not so much the discovery of cinema, but the discovery
of the world. But there comes a moment when the filmmaker begins to
doubt his own capacity to see things, when he no longer knows if his
gaze is right and innocent." -Theo Angelopoulos
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