Theodoros “Theo” Angelopoulos (Greek: ΘεόδωÏος 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 ï¬lm 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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Theo Angelopoulos Biography / Wiki
| Name | Theo Angelopoulos |
| Also Know | ΘόδωÏος Αγγελόπουλος, Théo Angelopoulos, Theodoros Angelopoulos, テオ・アンゲãƒãƒ—ãƒã‚¹, テオドãƒã‚¹ãƒ»ã‚¢ãƒ³ã‚²ãƒãƒ—ãƒã‚¹, 테오ë„로스 앙겔로풀로스, 테오 앙겔로풀로스 |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Athens, Greece |
| Date of Birth | 1935-04-27 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 76 |
| Deathday | 2012-01-24 |
Theo Angelopoulos Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| A Special Day | Self | 2012-05-16 | At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera…. |
| Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film | Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film… | ||
| The Other Scene | Self | 1975-09-22 | … |
| Nuevo / Otro Cine Español – Un Lugar En El Cine | 2007-05-03 | Greek Theo Angelopoulos traveling from Athens to Ostia, the Roman beach where Pasolini was killed. Far from there, in a Spanish train station, VÃctor… | |
| Theo Angelopoulos: The Internal Journey | himself | 2008-01-01 | A deeply personal look at the life of Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, one of the foremost representatives of Greek cinema. His life reflects the tr… |
| Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos | Himself | 1993-05-15 | 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 wo… |
| Filming Under Pressure | Self | 1991-02-01 | A doc made during the nightmarish filming of The Suspended Step of the Stork at Florina…. |
| ΈÏημος και μόνος για να μου φÏγει ο πόνος | 2006-11-01 | A film director, his relationships with women and the expression of his bitterly emotions about cinema and Greece… | |
| Close to Kiarostami | as Self | 2000-01-01 | A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami’s cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his works… |
| Î Ïος την ελευθεÏία | 1996-01-01 | … | |
| A City Runs Through the Festival | 2007-04-11 | A City Runs Through the Festival is an anatomy of the Festival through the eyes of its own audience…. | |
| Kurosawa’s Way | Himself | 2011-05-13 | Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work…. |
| Kierion | 1974-11-25 | In this political drama, a journalist accused as a conspirator in the murder of an American colleague is released for lack of evidence, and then searc… | |
| Affection to the People | Self | 2013-04-12 | A documentary about cinema censorship during the dictatorship in Greece (1967- 1974), based on never-before-seen state archives. The film includes cli… |
| Reconstruction | Journalist (uncredited) | 1970-09-24 | A magistrate reconstructs the murder of Costas Ghoussis, a labourer who was killed by his wife and her lover…. |
| Ένας ΆνθÏωπος Παντός ΚαιÏÎ¿Ï | Self | 2004-12-03 | … |
Theo Angelopoulos Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Travelling Players | Director | 1975-07-01 | This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they… |
| Ulysses’ Gaze | Director | 1995-10-12 | “A,” a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely cont… |
| Eternity and a Day | Director | 1998-10-23 | Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania… |
| To Each His Own Cinema | Director | 2007-10-31 | A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema…. |
| The Weeping Meadow | Director | 2004-02-20 | In the first film of Theo Angelopoulos’ incomplete trilogy, the story begins in 1919 with some Greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thes… |
| The Suspended Step of the Stork | Director | 1991-12-04 | Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Among … |
| Broadcast | Director | 1968-01-01 | 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 fil… |
| Voyage to Cythera | Director | 1984-04-21 | An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren’t the way he had hoped for…. |
| Landscape in the Mist | Director | 1988-09-10 | Two children search for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries betwe… |
| The Beekeeper | Director | 1987-08-21 | Feeling himself an outsider in contemporary Greece, a schoolteacher Spyros leaves his job and family to return to his hometown, where he intends to ta… |
| The Dust of Time | Director | 2008-11-22 | A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy… |
| Lumière and Company | Director | 1995-12-20 | 40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditio… |
| Reconstruction | Director | 1970-09-24 | A magistrate reconstructs the murder of Costas Ghoussis, a labourer who was killed by his wife and her lover…. |
| Alexander the Great | Director | 1980-08-04 | Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet govern… |
| The Hunters | Director | 1977-10-19 | 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 … |
| Days of ’36 | Director | 1972-09-30 | The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage and the government prevaricates over tactics so as not to alienate potentia… |
| Invisible World | Director | 2012-10-29 | An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world…. |
| Athens, Return to the Acropolis | Director | 1983-04-01 | Greek director Theo Angelopoulos takes the viewer on a tour through Athens in this episode of the TV series Capitali culturali d’Europa…. |
| One Village, One Villager… | Director | 1981-01-01 | A documentary shown on Greek television in 1981, that describes the plight of Greek villages abandoned by their inhabitants. Some scenes from this fil… |
| Athens | Director | 1995-01-01 | Short from Lumiére and Company (1995)… |
| Sky Below | Director | 2012-01-01 | A segment from “Invisible World†(2012)… |
Theo Angelopoulos Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Eternity and a Day | Producer | 1998-10-23 | Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania… |
| The Weeping Meadow | Producer | 2004-02-20 | In the first film of Theo Angelopoulos’ incomplete trilogy, the story begins in 1919 with some Greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thes… |
| The Beekeeper | Producer | 1987-08-21 | Feeling himself an outsider in contemporary Greece, a schoolteacher Spyros leaves his job and family to return to his hometown, where he intends to ta… |
| Voyage to Cythera | Producer | 1984-04-21 | An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren’t the way he had hoped for…. |
| The Suspended Step of the Stork | Producer | 1991-12-04 | Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Among … |
| Alexander the Great | Producer | 1980-08-04 | Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet govern… |
| Landscape in the Mist | Producer | 1988-09-10 | Two children search for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries betwe… |
| Ulysses’ Gaze | Producer | 1995-10-12 | “A,” a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely cont… |
| Broadcast | Producer | 1968-01-01 | 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 fil… |
| Athens, Return to the Acropolis | Producer | 1983-04-01 | Greek director Theo Angelopoulos takes the viewer on a tour through Athens in this episode of the TV series Capitali culturali d’Europa…. |
| Kierion | Assistant Production Coordinator | 1974-11-25 | In this political drama, a journalist accused as a conspirator in the murder of an American colleague is released for lack of evidence, and then searc… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Travelling Players | Screenplay | 1975-07-01 | This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they… |
| Ulysses’ Gaze | Screenplay | 1995-10-12 | “A,” a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely cont… |
| Landscape in the Mist | Story | 1988-09-10 | Two children search for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries betwe… |
| Voyage to Cythera | Writer | 1984-04-21 | An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren’t the way he had hoped for…. |
| The Beekeeper | Screenplay | 1987-08-21 | Feeling himself an outsider in contemporary Greece, a schoolteacher Spyros leaves his job and family to return to his hometown, where he intends to ta… |
| The Dust of Time | Writer | 2008-11-22 | A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy… |
| Alexander the Great | Writer | 1980-08-04 | Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet govern… |
| The Hunters | Screenplay | 1977-10-19 | 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 … |
| The Weeping Meadow | Writer | 2004-02-20 | In the first film of Theo Angelopoulos’ incomplete trilogy, the story begins in 1919 with some Greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thes… |
| The Suspended Step of the Stork | Writer | 1991-12-04 | Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Among … |
| Days of ’36 | Writer | 1972-09-30 | The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage and the government prevaricates over tactics so as not to alienate potentia… |
| Broadcast | Writer | 1968-01-01 | 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 fil… |
| Athens, Return to the Acropolis | Screenplay | 1983-04-01 | Greek director Theo Angelopoulos takes the viewer on a tour through Athens in this episode of the TV series Capitali culturali d’Europa…. |
| Reconstruction | Screenplay | 1970-09-24 | A magistrate reconstructs the murder of Costas Ghoussis, a labourer who was killed by his wife and her lover…. |
| The Hunters | Idea | 1977-10-19 | 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 … |
| Eternity and a Day | Idea | 1998-10-23 | Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania… |
| Eternity and a Day | Screenplay | 1998-10-23 | Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania… |
| Sky Below | Writer | 2012-01-01 | A segment from “Invisible World†(2012)… |
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