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Theo Angelopoulos

Theo Angelopoulos

Director · Born 1935-04-27 · Athens, Greece

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Biography

Theodoros Angelopoulos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος) (1935—2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. An acclaimed and multi-awarded film director who dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world. He started making films in 1967. In the 1970s he made a series of political films about modern Greece. Angelopoulos' work, described by Martin Scorsese as that of "a masterful filmmaker", is characterized by slightest movement, slightest change in distance, long takes, and complex yet carefully composed scenes; his cinematic method, as a result, is often described as "sweeping" and "hypnotic." In 1998 his film Eternity and a Day went on to win the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 51st edition of the Cannes Film Festival, and his films have been shown at many of the world's most esteemed film festivals. In 2000 he was the President of the Jury at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival. The life of Theo Angelopoulos, his work, and his passion were the subject of a documentary directed in 2008 by Elodie Lelu. Angelopoulos died late on Tuesday, 24 January 2012, at 76 years …

Directed

  1. Landscape in the Mist (1988) — Director
  2. Eternity and a Day (1998) — Director
  3. To Each His Own Cinema (2007) — Director
  4. Ulysses' Gaze (1995) — Director
  5. The Weeping Meadow (2004) — Director
  6. The Travelling Players (1975) — Director
  7. The Beekeeper (1986) — Director
  8. Lumière & Company (1995) — Director
  9. The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991) — Director
  10. Voyage to Cythera (1984) — Director
  11. The Dust of Time (2008) — Director
  12. Days of '36 (1972) — Director
  13. Reconstruction (1970) — Director
  14. Alexander the Great (1980) — Director
  15. The Hunters (1977) — Director
  16. Invisible World (2013) — Director
  17. Broadcast (1968) — Director
  18. Athens, Return to the Acropolis (1983) — Director
  19. One Village, One Villager... (1981) — Director
  20. Céu Inferior (2012) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Reconstruction (1970) — Journalist (uncredited)
  2. Kurosawa's Way (2011) — Self
  3. Robbery in Athens (1969)
  4. Jimmy the Tiger (1966)
  5. Kierion (1974)
  6. Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine (2007)
  7. Towards Freedom (1996)
  8. A City Runs Through the Festival (2007) — Self
  9. A Special Day (2012) — Self
  10. Champions: A Comic Tale (2011) — Self
  11. 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight (2008) — Self
  12. Affection to the People (2013) — Self
  13. Kiarostami in Close up (2000) — as Self
  14. The End of an Eternity (2000) — Self
  15. To Each Their Voice: Theo Angelopoulos & Nikos Panayotopoulos (2023) — Himself
  16. Journey Through History (1977) — Self
  17. Theo on Theo (2004)
  18. Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film
  19. The Other Stage (1975) — Self
  20. Erimos kai monos gia na mou fygei o ponos (2006)
  21. Theo Angelopoulos: The Internal Journey (2008) — himself
  22. Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos (1993) — Himself
  23. Filming Under Pressure (1991) — Self
  24. An All-Weather Man (2004) — Self
  25. Odyssea Corporum - Ballad for Nikos Koundouros (2010) — Self
  26. I have yesterday's hands, I'm missing tomorrow's (2025)
  27. The Silence of the Gods (2004) — Self
  28. Ciné regards (1978) — Self