TSPDT - Theo Angelopoulos

Theo Angelopoulos

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See Also

Michelangelo Antonioni

Manoel de Oliveira

Miklós Jancsó

István Szabó

Alain Tanner

Paolo & Vittorio Taviani

Wim Wenders

Director / Screenwriter / Producer

1935 -

Born April 17, Athens, Greece

Key Production Countries: Greece, Italy, France

Key Genres: Drama, Political Drama, Road Movie, Psychological Drama

Key Collaborators: Yorgos Arvanitis (Cinematographer), Tonino Guerra (Screenwriter), Eleni Karaindrou (Composer), Aliki Georgouli (Leading Player), Petros Markaris (Screenwriter), Andreas Sinanos (Cinematographer), Yannis Tsitsopoulos (Editor), Giorgos Triantafillou (Editor), Mikes Karapiperis (Production Designer), Eric Heumann (Producer)

Recommended: The Travelling Players (1975), Alexander the Great (1980), Voyage to Cythera (1984), Landscape in the Mist (1988),

Worth a Look: The Hunters (1977), The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991), Ulysses' Gaze (1995)

Links: [ IMDB ] [ TCMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Film Reference ] [ Theo Angelopoulos Internet Library ] [ Strictly Film School ] [ Musicolog Page ] [ Guardian Article (2005) ] [ Derek Malcolm's Century of Film: The Travelling Players ]

Books: [ The Films of Theo Angelopoulos ] [ Theo Angelopoulos: Interviews ] [ The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos ]

DVD's: [ Amazon ]

1,000 Greatest Films: The Travelling Players (1975), Eternity and a Day (1998)


	"It is hard for anyone to study Angelopoulos properly. The films deserve large screens - but one would settle for wretched video versions. Film culture has come a long way since the days when it was impossible to see "old" films in any form. Nevertheless, it is the case that many people who take the medium seriously have scarcely heard of, let alone encountered, the work of a master. And there are so few masters left now." - David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)

	"He established his international reputation with the epic The Travelling Players (1975), and is known for his meditative, melancholy explorations of landscape, history and the relationship between past events and current politics." - (Chambers Film Factfinder, 2006)

	"In 1975, after the seven-year military dictatorship in his country ended, Theo Angelopoulos emerged on the international scene with the most ambitious Greek films to date...Later, Angelopoulos used widely known actors - Marcello Mastroianni in The Beekeeper (1986), Harvey Keitel in Ulysses' Gaze (1995), and Bruno Ganz in Eternity and a Day (1998). With the masterful use of slow pans and long takes, the films are rewarding metaphysical road movies." - Ronald Bergan (Film - Eyewitness Companions, 2006)