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Thodoros Angelopoulos
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Greek film director, screenwriter and film producer (1935–2012)
Theodoros Angelopoulos was a Greek film director, screenwriter, and producer who created films from 1935 until his death in 2012. He is considered an important figure in cinema history for his distinctive approach to filmmaking and contributions to Greek and international film.
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Film & TV
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 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…
Known for
- Running on Waves — Self (Archive Footage)2026
- I have yesterday's hands, I'm missing tomorrow's2025
- To Each Their Voice: Theo Angelopoulos & Nikos Panayotopoulos — Himself2023
- Affection to the People — Self2013
- A Special Day — Self2012
- Kurosawa's Way — Self2011
- Champions: A Comic Tale — Self2011
- Odyssea Corporum - Ballad for Nikos Koundouros — Self2010
- 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight — Self2008
- Theo Angelopoulos: The Internal Journey — himself2008
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Key facts
- Born
- Theodoros Angelopoulos , ( 1935-04-27 ) 27 April 1935, Athens, Greece
- Died
- 24 January 2012 (2012-01-24) (aged 76), Piraeus , Greece
- Resting place
- First Cemetery of Athens
- Alma mater
- University of Athens IDHEC
- Occupations
- Film director, screenwriter
- Years active
- 1965–2012
- Spouse
- Foivi Oikonomopoulou ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1980 )
- Awards
- Palme d'Or (1998)
- Website
- Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Greece
- Place of birth
- Athens
- Place of death
- Piraeus
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- Greek
- Notable work
- Landscape in the Mist
- Participant in
- Documenta 6
- Student of
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Official website
- www.theoangelopoulos.gr
- Image
- Theodoros Angelopoulos Athens 26-4-2009-2.jpg
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- present in work
- Lumière and Company
- date of death
- 2012-01-24
- date of birth
- 1935-04-27
- contributed to creative work
- To Each His Own Cinema
- Commons category
- Theo Angelopoulos
- place of burial
- First Cemetery of Athens
- manner of death
- accidental death
- name in native language
- Θόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- birth name
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- partner in business or sport
- Eleni Karaindrou
- date of burial or cremation
- 2012-01-27
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Encyclopedic overview
Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος; 27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and 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' films, described by Martin Scorsese as those of "a masterful filmmaker", are characterized by the slightest movement, slightest change in distance, long takes, and complex, carefully composed scenes. His cinematic method is often described as "sweeping" and "hypnotic." Angelopoulos has said that in his shots, “time becomes space and space becomes time.” The pauses between action or music are important to creating the total effect.
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