A 21-minute quest for perfection from a legend who hadn't even started being legendary yet.
The team of journalists of a radio show asks women on the street for their definition of the ideal man in order to conduct a search for someone to fill the bill, a specimen who has all these characteristics. The lucky guy will spend a few hours in the company of a well-known movie star
Direction
Early glimpses of the long-take poetry that would define his career.
Writing
Self-aware premise that mocks its own construction while executing it.
Director
Theo Angelopoulos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Angelopoulos made this as his film school thesis at IDHEC Paris—Nico Mastorakis, who plays a reporter, would later direct the infamous exploitation film Island of Death.
The documentary-style street interviews are genuine—Angelopoulos actually polled Athenian women, blurring fiction and reality years before this became his signature.
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