- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- April 27, 1935
- Place of Birth
- Athens, Greece
- Died
- January 24, 2012
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…
Filmography
movieI have yesterday's hands, I'm missing tomorrow's
2025
movieTo Each Their Voice: Theo Angelopoulos & Nikos Panayotopoulos
2023 · Himself
movieInvisible World
2013 · Director, Writer
movieAffection to the People
2013 · Self
Céu Inferior
movieCéu Inferior
2012 · Director
movieA Special Day
2012 · Self
movieKurosawa's Way
2011 · Self
movieChampions: A Comic Tale
2011 · Self
Odyssea Corporum - Ballad for Nikos Koundouros
movieOdyssea Corporum - Ballad for Nikos Koundouros
2010 · Self
movieThe Dust of Time
2008 · Director, Writer
movie40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008 · Self
movieTheo Angelopoulos: The Internal Journey
2008 · himself
movieTo Each His Own Cinema
2007 · Director
movieNuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine
2007
movieA City Runs Through the Festival
2007 · Self
movieErimos kai monos gia na mou fygei o ponos
2006
movieTheo on Theo
2004
movieAn All-Weather Man
2004 · Self
movieThe Silence of the Gods
2004 · Self
movieThe Weeping Meadow
2004 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieThe End of an Eternity
2000 · Self
movieKiarostami in Close up
2000 · as Self
movieEternity and a Day
1998 · Director, Producer, Screenplay, Idea
moviePort Djema
1997 · Associate Producer
movieTowards Freedom
1996
movieLumière & Company
1995 · Director
movieUlysses' Gaze
1995 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
movieBalkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos
1993 · Himself
movieThe Suspended Step of the Stork
1991 · Director, Writer, Producer, Story
movieFilming Under Pressure
1991 · Self
movieLandscape in the Mist
1988 · Director, Story, Producer, Screenplay
movieThe Beekeeper
1986 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
movieVoyage to Cythera
1984 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieAthens, Return to the Acropolis
1983 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
movieOne Village, One Villager...
1981 · Director
movieAlexander the Great
1980 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieThe Hunters
1977 · Director, Screenplay, Idea
movieJourney Through History
1977 · Self
movieThe Other Stage
1975 · Self
movieThe Travelling Players
1975 · Director, Screenplay
movieKierion
1974 · , Assistant Production Coordinator
movieDays of '36
1972 · Director, Writer
movieReconstruction
1970 · Journalist (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
movieRobbery in Athens
1969
movieBroadcast
1968 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieJimmy the Tiger
1966
Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film
movieTheo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film
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