Theo Angelopoulos
Born: 1935-04-27 in Athens, Greece
Died: 2012-01-24
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2023
2013
- Invisible World ... (Director)
- Affection to the People as Self
2012
- Céu Inferior ... (Director)
- A Special Day as Self
2011
- Champions: A Comic Tale as Self
- Kurosawa's Way as Self
2010
2008
- The Dust of Time ... (Writer)
- Theo Angelopoulos: The Internal Journey as himself
- 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight as Self
2007
2004
- The Weeping Meadow ... (Director)
- An All-Weather Man as Self
- Theo on Theo
2000
- Kiarostami in Close up as as Self
- The End of an Eternity as Self
1998
- Eternity and a Day ... (Director)
1997
- Port Djema ... (Associate Producer)
1996
1995
- Ulysses' Gaze ... (Screenplay)
- Lumière & Company ... (Director)
1993
1991
- The Suspended Step of the Stork ... (Director)
- Filming Under Pressure as Self
1988
- Landscape in the Mist ... (Director)
1986
- The Beekeeper ... (Director)
1984
- Voyage to Cythera ... (Director)
1983
- Athens, Return to the Acropolis ... (Director)
1981
- One Village, One Villager... ... (Director)
1980
- Alexander the Great ... (Writer)
1977
- The Hunters ... (Director)
- Journey Through History as Self
1975
- The Travelling Players ... (Screenplay)
- The Other Stage as Self
1974
1972
- Days of '36 ... (Director)
1970
- The Reconstruction as Journalist (uncredited)
1969
1968
- Broadcast ... (Director)