Directing

Theo Angelopoulos

Born April 27, 1935 · Athens, Greece

Died January 24, 2012 · aged 76

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 about…

Known For

Eternity and a Day

Eternity and a Day · 1998

Eternity and a Day

Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past. This journey will allow him to wander between the past and the present, and encounter unexpected people, allowing him to collect unforgettable memories in the final moments of his life.

To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema · 2007

To Each His Own Cinema

MovieComedyDrama

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

Landscape in the Mist

Landscape in the Mist · 1988

Landscape in the Mist

Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.

The Beekeeper

The Beekeeper · 1986

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self-destructive relationship.

Ulysses' Gaze

Ulysses' Gaze · 1995

MovieDramaHistory

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

Robbery in Athens

Robbery in Athens · 1969

Robbery in Athens

MovieCrimeDrama

Three young people have decided to rob the safe of the estate agent Thomas Christidis, whose office is in the center of Athens. The first of them is Ntinos, who is Christidis’ clerk, the second one is Stavros, Ntinos’ younger brother who works as a book representative, while their friend Michalis is a pirate taxi-driver. The robbery is successful, and they feel excited.

Lumière & Company

Lumière & Company · 1995

Lumière & Company

MovieDramaDocumentary

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

The Dust of Time

The Dust of Time · 2008

The Dust of Time

To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his mother to reunite with his musician father, his film spans more than half of the 20th century.

Filmography

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Eternity and a Day

Eternity and a Day · 1998

Eternity and a Day

Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past. This journey will allow him to wander between the past and the present, and encounter unexpected people, allowing him to collect unforgettable memories in the final moments of his life.

Director

To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema · 2007

To Each His Own Cinema

MovieComedyDrama

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

Director

Landscape in the Mist

Landscape in the Mist · 1988

Landscape in the Mist

Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.

Director

The Beekeeper

The Beekeeper · 1986

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self-destructive relationship.

Director

Ulysses' Gaze

Ulysses' Gaze · 1995

MovieDramaHistory

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

Director

Robbery in Athens

Robbery in Athens · 1969

Robbery in Athens

MovieCrimeDrama

Three young people have decided to rob the safe of the estate agent Thomas Christidis, whose office is in the center of Athens. The first of them is Ntinos, who is Christidis’ clerk, the second one is Stavros, Ntinos’ younger brother who works as a book representative, while their friend Michalis is a pirate taxi-driver. The robbery is successful, and they feel excited.

Lumière & Company

Lumière & Company · 1995

Lumière & Company

MovieDramaDocumentary

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

Director

The Dust of Time

The Dust of Time · 2008

The Dust of Time

To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his mother to reunite with his musician father, his film spans more than half of the 20th century.

Director

The Weeping Meadow

The Weeping Meadow · 2004

The Weeping Meadow

MovieDramaHistory

The story follows a family of refugees from the early twentieth century through to the Civil War. Through movements, separations, and reunions, personal lives intersect with Greece’s major historical transformations. Space and time are in constant flux, while the characters remain trapped in an unending search for a homeland.

Director

The Travelling Players

The Travelling Players · 1975

The Travelling Players

A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.

Director

Voyage to Cythera

Voyage to Cythera · 1984

Voyage to Cythera

An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things.

Director

The Suspended Step of the Stork

The Suspended Step of the Stork · 1991

The Suspended Step of the Stork

A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.

Director

Broadcast

Broadcast · 1968

The team of journalists of a radio show asks women on the street for their definition of the ideal man in order to conduct a search for someone to fill the bill, a specimen who has all these characteristics. The lucky guy will spend a few hours in the company of a well-known movie star

Director

Athens, Return to the Acropolis

Athens, Return to the Acropolis · 1983

Athens, Return to the Acropolis

MovieDocumentary

A poetic visit to the city of Athens, based on paintings, poems and philosophical texts.

Director

One Village, One Villager...

One Village, One Villager... · 1981

One Village, One Villager...

MovieDocumentary

A documentary shown on Greek television in 1981, that describes the plight of Greek villages abandoned by their inhabitants. Some scenes from this film were rewritten into Voyage to Cythera.

Director

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great · 1980

Alexander the Great

MovieDramaHistory

Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens meet his demand for amnesty for his band of freedom fighters.

Director

The Hunters

The Hunters · 1977

MovieDramaHistory

During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding…

Director

Days of '36

Days of '36 · 1972

MovieDramaHistory

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.

Director

Invisible World

Invisible World · 2013

Invisible World

MovieDocumentaryDrama

An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.

Director

Reconstruction

Reconstruction · 1970

MovieCrimeDrama

An immigrant returns to his village after many years, only to find that no one is waiting for him. When his wife and her lover murder him, an investigator attempts to reconstruct the crime, while a film crew documents the event.

Director

Port Djema

Port Djema · 1997

A doctor from Paris travels to North Africa to investigate the murder of a friend and find a lost boy.

Associate Producer

Kiarostami in Close up

Kiarostami in Close up · 2000

Kiarostami in Close up

MovieDocumentary

A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his works both inside and outside his homeland.

as Self

Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine

Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine · 2007

Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine

MovieDocumentary

Greek Theo Angelopoulos traveling from Athens to Ostia, the Roman beach where Pasolini was killed. Far from there, in a Spanish train station, Víctor Erice wanders in an interview about the film resistance. And in Italy, Tonino Guerra, Ninetto Davoli and Nico Naldini lend his voice to the missing Passolini to close a historic triangle on film and solitude.

Towards Freedom

Towards Freedom · 1996

Towards Freedom

An actress who shone during the "golden age" of Greek cinema now lives far from the limelight, almost isolated, with only a few friends for company. Her decision to return to the stage, following a proposal from an old colleague, will bring her into contact with younger people, but also with ghosts from the past that haunt her, prompting her to reevaluate her attitude toward her desires and life.