Greek cinema has had two international moments and a long argument in between. A single Athens company ran a working studio through the fifties and sixties and exported two films on the strength of their scores, which is roughly all anyone abroad knew of Greece until the colonels fell. After 1974 Theo Angelopoulos spent thirty years making four-hour films about Greek history in shots that run for minutes at a time, and after the debt crisis a younger group started making very short, very cold films about families that behave like institutions.