Angelopoulos, Theo

Theo Angelopoulos (27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012)

Theo Angelopoulos began to study law in Athens but broke up his studies to go to the Sorbonne in Paris in order to study literature.

When he had finished his studies, he wanted to attend the School of Cinema at Paris but decided instead to go back to Greece.

There he worked as a journalist and critic for the newspaper “Demokratiki Allaghi” until it was banned by the military after a coup d’état.

“Prizes are prizes, but I still need to tell that story. And being simple is the hardest thing.”

Now unemployed, he decided to make his first movie, Anaparastasi (1970).

Internationally successful was his trilogy about the history of Greece from 1930 to 1970 consisting of Meres tou ’36 (1972), O thiasos (1975), and Oi kynigoi (1977). After the end of the dictatorship in Greece, Angelopoulos went to Italy, where he worked with RAI (and more money). His movies then became less political. --IMDb

2004   Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow | Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei (2004)
1998   Eternity and a Day - Mia aioniotita kai mia mera (1998)
1995   Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
1991   The Suspended Step of the Stork - To mετέωρο βήμα του πελαργού (1991)
1988   Landscape in the Mist - Topio stin omichli (1988)
1986   The Bee-Keeper - O melissokomos (1986)
1984   Voyage to Cythera - Taxidi sta Kythira (1984)
1977   The Hunters - Oi kynigoi (1977)
1975   The Travelling Players | Ο Θίασος (1975)