The Dust of Time (Greek: Η Σκόνη του Χρόνου) is a 2008 Greek drama film written and directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos, and starring Willem Dafoe, Irène Jacob, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli and Christiane Paul.

[2] The final installment, under the working title The Other Sea,[3] was left incomplete due to Angelopoulos' unexpected death in January 2012.

[4] In 1999, A, an American filmmaker of Greek descent, receives a phone call from his melancholic daughter at the Cinecittà studio.

He rushes back to his apartment in Rome, where he finds a letter his mother, Eleni, wrote to his father, Spyros, in 1956.

In 1956 Siberia, Eleni puts her three-year-old son on the train to Moscow, where Jacob's older sister will take care of him.

"[9] Dan Fainaru of Screen International felt that it is Theodoros Angelopoulos' most affecting and personal film in years.

"[11] Vrasidas Karalis found the film to suffer from overplotting, and viewed its "depictions of intersecting temporalities" as inventive but confusing.

[12] In the book Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos, Angelos Koutsourakis wrote that "the expository dialogue [...] often comes across as wooden" and stated that the film had a "bristling recalcitrance".