Visions of Eight / The Suspended Step of the Stork

Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sat., Apr. 11, 2026, 2 – 6:10 p.m.



Just as the Olympics serves as a beacon for international athletes, this portmanteau documentary compiles segments from acclaimed filmmakers across the world—John Schlesinger, Claude Lelouch and Ichikawa Kon, to name a few—who each present a unique perspective of the 1972 Munich Summer Games in Visions of Eight.

The Suspended Step of the Stork is a poetic inquiry into what constitutes community in moments of displacement. Set along the Greece–Albania frontier just as Albania’s Stalinist regime begins to collapse, the film follows a journalist (Gregory Patrikareas) searching for a vanished politician (Marcello Mastroianni) amid refugee encampments and zones of enforced waiting.

Gazette Classification: Film
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Cost: $10 - Regular Admission / $8 - Non-Harvard Students, Harvard staff and Senior Citizens. Harvard students & HUID holders free.
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