 However Theo Angelopoulos had been working on the film throughout 1974 when the dictatorship was still in power, and had to hide his work from the authorities.To continue working he claimed he was producing a version of the Orestes myth set in the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II.Angelopoulos claimed that the colonels' junta gave him the idea for "The Travelling Players"; Angelopoulos, who was formerly a film critic for a socialist newspaper wanted to analyze two things