Distinguished Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos directs the great Marcello Mastroianni in this extraordinary & beautifully photographed tale of self-discovery. Mastroianni plays Spyros a schoolmaster of late middle-age who like his father before him is also a beekeeper. Disenchanted & unfulfilled by his life Spyros takes leave of his wife & grown children to embark on a solitary journey in search of the emerging springtime flowers for his cherished beehives. Moving from village to village he encounters a young girl hitchhiker who awakens in him feelings that start to become an obsession. Charged with quiet emotional intensity The Beekeeper is a moving & powerful film about a man's struggle to find release from the spectre of the past.