Theodoros Angelopoulos
Film director
1935 – 2012
Who was Theodoros Angelopoulos?
Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.
An acclaimed and multi-awarded film director, who has dominated the Greek art film industry since 1975, and is considered one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world, started making films in 1967. In the 1970s he made a series of political films about modern Greece.
Angelopoulos, defined by Martin Scorsese as "a masterful filmmaker", has developed a unique cinematic vision, characterized by slightest movement, slightest change in distance, long takes, and complicated but carefully composed scenes, offering a hypnotic, sweeping, and profoundly emotional cinema.
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 the most important film festivals around the world. In 2000 he was the President of the Jury at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival.
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- Born
- Apr 27, 1935
Athens - Also known as
- Theo
- Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos
- Thodoros Angelopoulos
- Théo Angelopoulos
- Parents
- Spouses
- Phoebe Economopoulos
(1980 - 2012/01/24)
- Phoebe Economopoulos
- Children
- Nationality
- Greece
- Profession
- Education
- Institut des hautes études cinématographiques
Film - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Jurisprudence
- Institut des hautes études cinématographiques
- Died
- Jan 24, 2012
Piraeus - Resting place
- Proto Nekrotafio
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on July 23, 2013
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