Theo Angelopoulos

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-04-27 (77 years old)

Deathday

2012-01-24

Place of Birth

Athens, Greece

Theo Angelopoulos

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 sc...

Production

1975

1975

1995

Ulysses' Gaze

as Screenplay

1995

Ulysses' Gaze

as Director

1998

1974

Kierion

as Assistant Production Coordinator

2007

2004

1988

1984

1984

1986

The Beekeeper

as Director

1986

The Beekeeper

as Screenplay

1968

Broadcast

as Director

2008

2008

The Dust of Time

as Director

1970

1977

The Hunters

as Director

1972

Days of '36

as Director

1980

1980

2012

Invisible World

as Director

2004

1995

1998

2004

1972

Days of '36

as Writer

1986

The Beekeeper

as Producer

1984

1977

The Hunters

as Screenplay

1980

1988

1995

Ulysses' Gaze

as Producer

1997

Port Djema

as Associate Producer

1968

Broadcast

as Producer

1968

Broadcast

as Writer

1970

The Reconstruction

as Screenplay

1977

1998

Eternity and a Day

as Screenplay

2012

1988

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Trois minutes

as Director

2012

Céu Inferior

as Director

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