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 scenes; his cinematic method, as a result, is often described as "sweeping" and "hypnotic." 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 many of the world's most esteemed film festivals. In 2000 he was the President of the Jury at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival. The life of Theo Angelopoulos, his work, and his passion were the subject of a documentary directed in 2008 by Elodie Lelu. Angelopoulos died late on Tuesday, 24 January 2012, at 76 years old after being involved in a crash with a motorcycle ridden by an off-duty police officer. He was taken to hospital, where he was treated in an intensive care unit but succumbed to his serious injuries several hours later. Description above from the Wikipedia article Theo Angelopoulos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 27, 1935
Deathday: January 24, 2012
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Kiarostami in Close up
2000-01-01
Kiarostami in Close up
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The End of an Eternity
1999-01-01
The End of an Eternity
Overview: Documentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998), focusing on the exhaustive preparation of the shot-sequence that closes the film, and the peculiar way in which Theo Angelopoulos works with his technical team and actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Towards freedom
1996-01-01
Towards freedom
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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A City Runs Through the Festival
2007-04-11
A City Runs Through the Festival
Overview: A City Runs Through the Festival is an anatomy of the Festival through the eyes of its own audience.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2007-04-11
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The Reconstruction
1970-09-24
The Reconstruction
Overview: A magistrate reconstructs the murder of Costas Ghoussis, a labourer who was killed by his wife and her lover.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-09-24
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Kurosawa's Way
2011-05-13
Kurosawa's Way
Overview: Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-13
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To Each Their Voice: Theo Angelopoulos & Nikos Panayotopoulos
2023-02-09
To Each Their Voice: Theo Angelopoulos & Nikos Panayotopoulos
Overview: In the mid-80s, Aegokeros publishing house intended to publish a magazine about film and the theater. Theo Angelopoulos and Nikos Panayotopoulos had been chosen by the editorial board for the first issue. A summer evening at Angelopoulos house in the Mati area, Antonis Kokkinos and Yannis Soldatos recorded a three-hour interview between Theo and Nikos, within the frameworks set for them, in order to be included in the magazine. The interview brought to the fore their common course, even though completely opposite from one point onward. Thirty-five years later, the unpublished conversation has been found; both the tapes and the transcripts! This conversation stands as a valuable manifestation of the creators’ views regarding their own, until then, existing and future work, as well as a thorough insight into the New Greek Cinema, and into World Cinema in general.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2023-02-09
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Journey Through History
1977-01-01
Journey Through History
Overview: A journey through history
Genres: History Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008-05-18
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Overview: A hstory of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-18
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Champions: A Comic Tale
2011-03-15
Champions: A Comic Tale
Overview: A comic tale. The issue of film education has been a Gordian link for many years in Greece. Starting from the time of Stavrakos in 1950, the documentary reaches up to the present day, exploring this issue through a dialogue between the people who dealt and are dealing. Among them Theodoros Angelopoulos, Pantelis Voulgaris, Dinos Katsouridis, Nikos Koundouros, Manos Zacharias, Werner Herzog, Emir Kustouritsa, Fatih Akin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2011-03-15
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Robbery in Athens
1969-06-12
Robbery in Athens
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-06-12
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Jimmy the Tiger
1966-01-01
Jimmy the Tiger
Overview: A Greek strongman seduces a young tourist and spend the day with her. "Jimmis the Tiger" is a family sportsman, who makes a living by showing off his skills in impromptu "shows" on the streets of Athens. One day a young German woman approaches him and asks his permission to take a series of photographs for a report. A tenderness will develop between them and they will spend a night together in a hotel room. The next morning, Tzimis will find himself accused of seducing the young foreigner to rob her...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Theo on Theo
2004-12-18
Theo on Theo
Overview: An interview with Japanese writer and poet Natsuki Ikezawa at Angelopoulos' home in Greece.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-18
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A Special Day
2012-05-16
A Special Day
Overview: At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-16
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Kierion
1974-11-25
Kierion
Overview: Athens 1967. The political assassinations and the background between the government and foreign powers, on the occasion of the "Polk Case", where an innocent leftist was convicted for the murder of an American journalist in Greece.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1974-11-25
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Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film
Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film
Overview: Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
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The Other Stage
1975-09-22
The Other Stage
Overview: Michel Demopoulos directed only one film in his life: a documentary about the shooting of Theo Angelopoulos’ O Thiasos / The Travelling Players (1975).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1975-09-22
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Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine
2007-05-03
Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-05-03
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Έρημος και μόνος για να μου φύγει ο πόνος
2006-11-01
Έρημος και μόνος για να μου φύγει ο πόνος
Overview: A film director, his relationships with women and the expression of his bitterly emotions about cinema and Greece
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2006-11-01
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Theo Angelopoulos: The Internal Journey
2008-01-01
Theo Angelopoulos: The Internal Journey
Overview: A deeply personal look at the life of Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, one of the foremost representatives of Greek cinema. His life reflects the tragedies faced by an entire nation during the oppressive era of military dictatorship. It is a story of boundless ambitions, hope, love and the responsibilities that haunt every artist, even after death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos
1993-05-15
Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos
Overview: Theo Angelopoulos recalls the defining moment in 1964 that led to him to live his entire life in Greece, and explores the concept of borders in his work - as the limits of existence, of life and death, of language and communication. “Narrowing down the borders narrows the communication, stretches the differences, magnifies oppositions, magnifies reasons for war, magnifies the refugees, magnifies the internal exile... In reality a civil war leaves behind wounds which cannot easily be healed and they revive, like ghosts, or like recurrent nightmares, during the long nights which have dogged Greek society for years.”
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-15
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Filming Under Pressure
1991-02-01
Filming Under Pressure
Overview: A doc made during the nightmarish filming of The Suspended Step of the Stork at Florina.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1991-02-01
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A Man for Εverything
2004-12-03
A Man for Εverything
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2004-12-03
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Affection to the People
2013-04-12
Affection to the People
Overview: A documentary about cinema censorship during the dictatorship in Greece (1967- 1974), based on never-before-seen state archives. The film includes clips of films which were either censored or banned, newsreels of that era, interviews with famous directors and also secret documents from the reports of the Censorship Committee that are made public for the first time, portraying a revealing picture of the system’s control mechanisms and providing a fresco of that time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2013-04-12
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