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Theo Angelopoulos
Athens, Greece
Theodoros Angelopoulos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος) (1935—2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. An acclaimed and multi-awarded film director who dominate…
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Theodoros Angelopoulos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος) (1935—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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2026
Running on Waves
Movie Self (Archive Footage)
- 2025
- 2023
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2013
Invisible World
Movie Director
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2013
Affection to the People
Movie Self
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2012
Céu Inferior
Movie Director
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2012
A Special Day
Movie Self
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2011
Kurosawa's Way
Movie Self
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2011
Champions: A Comic Tale
Movie Self
- 2010
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2008
The Dust of Time
Movie Writer
- 2008
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2008
Theo Angelopoulos: The Internal Journey
Movie himself
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2007
To Each His Own Cinema
Movie Director
- 2007
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2007
A City Runs Through the Festival
Movie Self
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- 2006
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2004
Theo on Theo
Movie
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2004
An All-Weather Man
Movie Self
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2004
The Silence of the Gods
Movie Self
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2004
The Weeping Meadow
Movie Director
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2000
The End of an Eternity
Movie Self
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2000
Kiarostami in Close up
Movie as Self
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1998
Eternity and a Day
Movie Director
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1997
Port Djema
Movie Associate Producer
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1996
Towards Freedom
Movie
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1995
Lumière & Company
Movie Director
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1995
Ulysses' Gaze
Movie Screenplay
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1993
Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos
Movie Himself
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1991
The Suspended Step of the Stork
Movie Director
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1991
Filming Under Pressure
Movie Self
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1988
Landscape in the Mist
Movie Story
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1986
The Beekeeper
Movie Screenplay
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1984
Voyage to Cythera
Movie Writer
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1983
Athens, Return to the Acropolis
Movie Director
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1981
One Village, One Villager...
Movie Director
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1980
Alexander the Great
Movie Director
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1978
Ciné regards
TV show Self
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1977
The Hunters
Movie Director
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1977
Journey Through History
Movie Self
