Theo Angelopoulos

Theo Angelopoulos – a luminary of Greek and world cinema, the publication of most of his paintings became a sensation and was accompanied by awards at the Cannes, Berlin and Venice festivals. He successfully combines the professions of director, screenwriter, producer and actor. In total, he made 24 films, his favorite genres are drama, historical and short films. Angelopoulos was born in Athens, Greece in 1935. When he was 9 years old, a civil war broke out in Greece and the memories of those more

Theo Angelopoulos – a luminary of Greek and world cinema, the publication of most of his paintings became a sensation and was accompanied by awards at the Cannes, Berlin and Venice festivals. He successfully combines the professions of director, screenwriter, producer and actor. In total, he made 24 films, his favorite genres are drama, historical and short films.
Angelopoulos was born in Athens, Greece in 1935. When he was 9 years old, a civil war broke out in Greece and the memories of those events still haunt his soul and are reflected in the pictures he shoots. At first he entered the University of Athens at the Faculty of Law, but then went to Paris, where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne University. Then Angelopoulos continued his education at the French film school IDEK. For some time after returning to his homeland, Theo worked as a journalist and film critic.
Angelopoulos has a very bright individual style. His first short film was made in 1963. In the future, it was the tendency to the “short meter” that determined the style of the director. Another distinguishing feature of his paintings is historicism and modern understanding of mythological subjects. It is also characterized by “slow-motion narrative and long shots”: a typical example of this phenomenon is the film “Comedians” – its duration is 230 minutes, and the frames are only 80(!).

Viewers are well aware of his paintings: "Days of 1936" (1972), "Comedians" (1975), "Hunters" (1977), Alexander the Great (1980), "Weeping Meadow"
(1984), "Landscape in the Fog" (1988), "The Interrupted Step of the Stork" (1991), "The Look of Ulysses" (1995), "Eternity and a Day" (1998), "Prisoners of the Sun" (2004), "Everyone Has His Own Cinema" (2007), "The Dust of Time" (2009). As a rule, Angelopoulos prefers to work with the cameraman Yorgos Arvanitis, the composer Eleni Karaindro and the screenwriter Tonino Guerra. /