Theo Angelopoulos

Known for DirectingBorn 1935-04-27Died 2012-01-24Athens, Greece

Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος) (27 April 1935 – 24 January 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 old after being involved in a crash with a motorcycle ridden by an off-duty police officer. He was taken to hospital, where he was treated in an intensive care unit but succumbed to his serious injuries several hours later. Description above from the Wikipedia article Theo Angelopoulos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Athens, Return to the Acropolis

Eternity and a Day

The Weeping Meadow

Landscape in the Mist

The Hunters

Ulysses' Gaze

Affection to the People

The Travelling Players

The Beekeeper

Voyage to Cythera

One Village, One Villager...

Broadcast

A City Runs Through the Festival

The Suspended Step of the Stork

Alexander the Great

Reconstruction

To Each His Own Cinema

The Dust of Time

Lumière & Company

Port Djema

A Special Day

Champions: A Comic Tale

Days of '36

Kurosawa's Way

Invisible World

Jimmy the Tiger

Kierion

Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine

Robbery in Athens

40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight

Towards Freedom

I have yesterday's hands, I'm missing tomorrow's

To Each Their Voice: Theo Angelopoulos & Nikos Panayotopoulos

Céu Inferior

Odyssea Corporum - Ballad for Nikos Koundouros

Theo Angelopoulos: The Internal Journey

Erimos kai monos gia na mou fygei o ponos

Theo on Theo

An All-Weather Man

The Silence of the Gods

Kiarostami in Close up

The End of an Eternity

Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos

Filming Under Pressure

Journey Through History

The Other Stage

Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film