 Many critics have declared "The Travelling Players" Angelopoulos' masterpiece; 16 critics and five directors voted it one of their favorite films in the British Film Institute's 2012 "Sight & Sound" poll.A group of travelling players peregrinates through Greece putting on a play called "Golfo the Shepherdess".The first level of the film shows them setting up, rehearsing, promoting and performing in fustanella this 1893 piece, a bucolic verse drama of love, betrayal and death.