Voyage to Cythera tells of an aged partisan from the Greek Civil War who returns after years of exile in the Soviet Union to bedevil his long-deserted wife and his son, a stage director in Athens. Shot with the moody rigor characteristic of Angelopoulos and cinematographer Arvanitis, in the rain-drenched mountain regions, in Athens, and on the stormy quay at Piraeus, the film is as much a dream journey as a real one, as much myth as contemporary drama. The contemporaneity of historical and modern times is a constant element of Angelopoulos's style; in Voyage to Cythera, he implies that for some Greeks time stopped with the tragedy of the Civil War, a wound that refuses healing. But for most, life goes on with all its compromises. To find the Greece he knew and had fought for, the old man must go elsewhere-back to the USSR, or into his fantasies. The fine stage actor Manos Katrakis gave an extraordinary last performance as the eccentric revolutionary.