Theo Angelopoulos
Biography
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.
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Movies (45)
I have yesterday's hands, I'm missing tomorrow's
2025
To Each Their Voice: Theo Angelopoulos & Nikos Panayotopoulos
as Himself
2023
Invisible World
Director (Directing)
2013
Affection to the People
as Self
2013
Céu Inferior
Director (Directing)
2012
A Special Day
as Self
2012
Kurosawa's Way
as Self
2011
Champions: A Comic Tale
as Self
2011
Odyssea Corporum - Ballad for Nikos Koundouros
as Self
2010
The Dust of Time
Director (Directing)
2008
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
as Self
2008
Theo Angelopoulos: The Internal Journey
as himself
2008
To Each His Own Cinema
Director (Directing)
2007
Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine
2007
A City Runs Through the Festival
as Self
2007
Erimos kai monos gia na mou fygei o ponos
2006
Theo on Theo
2004
An All-Weather Man
as Self
2004
The Weeping Meadow
Director (Directing)
2004
The End of an Eternity
as Self
2000
Kiarostami in Close up
as as Self
2000
Eternity and a Day
Director (Directing)
1998
Port Djema
Associate Producer (Production)
1997
Towards Freedom
1996
Lumière & Company
Director (Directing)
1995
Ulysses' Gaze
Director (Directing)
1995
Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos
as Himself
1993
The Suspended Step of the Stork
Director (Directing)
1991
Filming Under Pressure
as Self
1991
Landscape in the Mist
Director (Directing)
1988
The Beekeeper
Director (Directing)
1986
Voyage to Cythera
Director (Directing)
1984
Athens, Return to the Acropolis
Director (Directing)
1983
One Village, One Villager...
Director (Directing)
1981
Alexander the Great
Director (Directing)
1980
The Hunters
Director (Directing)
1977
Journey Through History
as Self
1977
The Other Stage
as Self
1975
The Travelling Players
Director (Directing)
1975
Kierion
1974
Days of '36
Director (Directing)
1972
Reconstruction
as Journalist (uncredited)
1970
Robbery in Athens
1969
Broadcast
Director (Directing)
1968
Jimmy the Tiger
1966