Theo Angelopoulos
Greek film director, screenwriter and film producer (1935-2012) · Greece · Directors · Died at 76
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Something wrong?A Greek filmmaker whose long takes and meticulously composed shots - where "time becomes space and space becomes time" - made him one of the most influential directors in world cinema, with a method Martin Scorsese called masterful.
A life in dates
A Special DayFilm, 20122008Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas ArtesAward
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' FortnightFilm, 20082004European Film Academy Critics AwardAwardGrand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian RepublicAwardHonorary Doctorate of Grenoble-III UniversityAward
An All-Weather ManFilm, 20042001Arts and Culture Prize of German CatholicsAward1998Honorary Doctorate of Paris Nanterre UniversityAwardPalme d'OrAward
Eternity and a DayFilm, 1998Director, Writer1995Cannes Film Festival Grand PrixAwardEuropean Film Academy Critics AwardAward
Lumière & CompanyFilm, 1995Director1991
Filming Under PressureFilm1989European Film Award for Best FilmAward1988Silver LionAward1986
The BeekeeperFilm, Director, Writer1984Best Screenplay AwardAward1983
Athens, Return to the AcropolisFilm, Director, Writer1980Golden LionAward
Alexander the GreatFilm, 1980Director, Writer1978
Ciné regardsSeries1975Sutherland TrophyAward
The Travelling PlayersFilm, 1975Director, Writer1972
Days of '36Film, Director, Writer1969
Robbery in AthensFilm1966
Jimmy the TigerFilm1935Born27 April 1935Also in Deutsch
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Filmography 40
RWRunning on Waves
IWInvisible World
APAffection to the PeopleADA Special Day
KWKurosawa's Way
CTChampions: A Comic Tale
TTThe Dust of TimeXF40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
TJTheo Angelopoulos: The Internal Journey
TCTo Each His Own Cinema
NCNuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine
AFA City Runs Through the Festival
TMThe Weeping MeadowAMAn All-Weather Man
TGThe Silence of the Gods
KUKiarostami in Close up
TEThe End of an EternityEDEternity and a Day
TFTowards Freedom
UGUlysses' GazeLCLumière & Company
BABalkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos
TSThe Suspended Step of the StorkFPFilming Under Pressure
LMLandscape in the MistTBThe Beekeeper
VCVoyage to CytheraAAAthens, Return to the Acropolis
OVOne Village, One Villager...AGAlexander the Great
THThe Hunters
JHJourney Through HistoryTPThe Travelling Players
KIKierionDODays of '36
REReconstructionRARobbery in Athens
BRBroadcastJTJimmy the Tiger81 credits on file
Television 1
CRCiné regardsAwards
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Theodoros Angelopoulos started making films in 1967 and spent the 1970s crafting a series of political films about modern Greece. From 1975 on, he dominated the Greek art film industry with a cinematic style characterized by the slightest movement, slightest change in distance, and complex scenes that unfolded in hypnotic long takes. The pauses between action or music were as essential as what filled them. In 1998, Eternity and a Day won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. He died in Athens on 24 January 2012, leaving behind work that played at the world's most esteemed festivals and a reputation for sweep and precision few filmmakers ever approach.
In common with Theo
Erland JosephsonAlso in Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
Tonino GuerraAlso in Eternity and a Day (1998)
Serge ReggianiAlso in The Beekeeper (1986)
Christiane PaulAlso in The Dust of Time (2008)
Jules DassinAlso in Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos (1993)
Homayoun ErshadiAlso in Kiarostami in Close up (2000)Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.