History, Silence, Borders are the names given to Angelopoulos’s complete trilogies. History is never a lesson; no blatant views on Balkan history are ever given; myth and symbolism are all too subtle for the censors of the Greek Junta. Silence becomes an opportunity for personal and societal self-reflection. Borders are highly symbolic (‘If I take another step I’m somewhere else’) and as relevant now as they’ve ever been. All three themes merge in his last, unfinished trilogy on Modern Greece.