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Theo Angelopoulos

Theo Angelopoulos

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.

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Movies Starring Theo Angelopoulos (23)

To Each Their Voice: Theo Angelopoulos & Nikos Panayotopoulos (2023)

In the mid-80s, Aegokeros publishing house intended to publish a magazine about film and the theater. Theo Angelopoulos and Nikos Panayotopoulos had been chosen by the editorial board for the first issue. A summer evening at Angelopoulos house in the Mati ...

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Affection to the People (2013)

A documentary about cinema censorship during the dictatorship in Greece (1967- 1974), based on never-before-seen state archives. The film includes clips of films which were either censored or banned, newsreels of that era, interviews with famous directors ...

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A Special Day (2012)

At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera. ...

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Kurosawa's Way (2011)

Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work. ...

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Champions: A Comic Tale (2011)

A comic tale. The issue of film education has been a Gordian link for many years in Greece. Starting from the time of Stavrakos in 1950, the documentary reaches up to the present day, exploring this issue through a dialogue between the people who dealt and ...

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40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight (2008)

A history of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection. ...

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Theo Angelopoulos: The Internal Journey (2008)

A deeply personal look at the life of Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, one of the foremost representatives of Greek cinema. His life reflects the tragedies faced by an entire nation during the oppressive era of military dictatorship. It is a story of bou ...

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Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine (2007)

Greek Theo Angelopoulos traveling from Athens to Ostia, the Roman beach where Pasolini was killed. Far from there, in a Spanish train station, Víctor Erice wanders in an interview about the film resistance. And in Italy, Tonino Guerra, Ninetto Davoli and ...

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A City Runs Through the Festival (2007)

A City Runs Through the Festival is an anatomy of the Festival through the eyes of its own audience. ...

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Erimos kai monos gia na mou fygei o ponos (2006)

A film director, his relationships with women and the expression of his bitterly emotions about cinema and Greece ...

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Theo on Theo (2004)

An interview with Japanese writer and poet Natsuki Ikezawa at Angelopoulos' home in Greece. ...

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An All-Weather Man (2004)

An approach to the phenomenon of Thanasis Vengos, the man and the artist, through film excerpts, testimonies of his collaborators and relatives and analyses of his symbolic role in the post-war modern Greek reality. Thanasis Vengos, for more than fifty yea ...

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The End of an Eternity (2000)

Documentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998), focusing on the exhaustive preparation of the shot-sequence that closes the film, and the peculiar way in which Theo Angelopoulos works with his technical team and ac ...

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Kiarostami in Close up (2000)

A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his works both inside and outside his homeland. ...

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Towards Freedom (1996)

An actress who shone during the "golden age" of Greek cinema now lives far from the limelight, almost isolated, with only a few friends for company. Her decision to return to the stage, following a proposal from an old colleague, will bring her into contac ...

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Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos (1993)

Theo Angelopoulos recalls the defining moment in 1964 that led to him to live his entire life in Greece, and explores the concept of borders in his work - as the limits of existence, of life and death, of language and communication. "Narrowing down the bor ...

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Filming Under Pressure (1991)

A doc made during the nightmarish filming of The Suspended Step of the Stork at Florina. ...

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Journey Through History (1977)

A journey through history ...

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The Other Stage (1975)

Michel Demopoulos directed only one film in his life: a documentary about the shooting of Theo Angelopoulos' O Thiasos / The Travelling Players (1975). ...

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Kierion (1974)

Athens 1967. The political assassinations and the background between the government and foreign powers, on the occasion of the "Polk Case", where an innocent leftist was convicted for the murder of an American journalist in Greece. ...

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Reconstruction (1970)

An immigrant returns to his village after many years, only to find that no one is waiting for him. When his wife and her lover murder him, an investigator attempts to reconstruct the crime, while a film crew documents the event. ...

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Robbery in Athens (1969)

Three young people have decided to rob the safe of the estate agent Thomas Christidis, whose office is in the center of Athens. The first of them is Ntinos, who is Christidis' clerk, the second one is Stavros, Ntinos' younger brother who works as a book re ...

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Jimmy the Tiger (1966)

A Greek strongman seduces a young tourist and spend the day with her. "Jimmis the Tiger" is a family sportsman, who makes a living by showing off his skills in impromptu "shows" on the streets of Athens. One day a young German woman approaches him and asks ...

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Movies Made By Theo Angelopoulos (21)

Invisible World (2013)

An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world. ...

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The Dust of Time (2008)

To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his mother to reunite with his musician father, his film spans more than half of the 20th century. ...

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To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state ...

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The Weeping Meadow (2004)

The story follows a family of refugees from the early twentieth century through to the Civil War. Through movements, separations, and reunions, personal lives intersect with Greece's major historical transformations. Space and time are in constant flux, wh ...

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Eternity and a Day (1998)

Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past. This journey will allow him to wander between the past and the present, and enc ...

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Port Djema (1997)

A doctor from Paris travels to North Africa to investigate the murder of a friend and find a lost boy. ...

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Lumière & Company (1995)

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) ...

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Ulysses' Gaze (1995)

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more. ...

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The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)

A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago. ...

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Landscape in the Mist (1988)

Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany. ...

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The Beekeeper (1986)

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self ...

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Voyage to Cythera (1984)

An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things. ...

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Athens, Return to the Acropolis (1983)

A poetic visit to the city of Athens, based on paintings, poems and philosophical texts. ...

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One Village, One Villager... (1981)

A documentary shown on Greek television in 1981, that describes the plight of Greek villages abandoned by their inhabitants. Some scenes from this film were rewritten into Voyage to Cythera. ...

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Alexander the Great (1980)

Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens meet his demand for amnesty for his band of freedom fighters. ...

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The Hunters (1977)

During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. ...

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The Travelling Players (1975)

A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging "Golfo the Shepherdess". As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the count ...

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Kierion (1974)

Athens 1967. The political assassinations and the background between the government and foreign powers, on the occasion of the "Polk Case", where an innocent leftist was convicted for the murder of an American journalist in Greece. ...

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Days of '36 (1972)

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray. ...

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Reconstruction (1970)

An immigrant returns to his village after many years, only to find that no one is waiting for him. When his wife and her lover murder him, an investigator attempts to reconstruct the crime, while a film crew documents the event. ...

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Broadcast (1968)

The team of journalists of a radio show asks women on the street for their definition of the ideal man in order to conduct a search for someone to fill the bill, a specimen who has all these characteristics. ...

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