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Theodoros Angelopoulos was born on 27 April, 1935 in Athens, Greece, is a Greek film director, screenwriter and film producer. Discover Theodoros Angelopoulos's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

Popular As Theodoros Angelopoulos
Occupation Film director, screenwriter
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 27 April, 1935
Birthday 27 April
Birthplace Athens, Greece
Date of death 2012
Died Place Piraeus, Greece
Nationality Greece

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His wife is Phoebe Economopoulou (1980–2012; his death)

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1935

Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος, ; 27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.

Theodoros Angelopoulos was born in Athens on 27 April 1935.

His father Spyros hailed from the town of Ampeliona, Messenia in the Peloponnese.

During the Greek Civil War, his father was taken hostage and returned when Angelopoulos was 9 years old; according to the director, the absence of his father and looking for him among the dead bodies (during the "Dekemvriana" in Athens) had a great impact on his cinematography.

He studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but after his military service went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne.

He soon dropped out to study film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) before returning to Greece.

There, he worked as a journalist and film critic.

1967

He started making films in 1967.

Angelopoulos began making films after the 1967 coup that began the Regime of the Colonels.

1968

He made his first short film in 1968 and in the 1970s he began making a series of political feature films about modern Greece: Days of '36 (Meres Tou 36, 1972), The Travelling Players (O Thiassos, 1975) and The Hunters (I Kynighoi, 1977).

1970

In the 1970s he made a series of political films about modern Greece.

Angelopoulos' films, described by Martin Scorsese as that of "a masterful filmmaker", are characterized by the slightest movement, slightest change in distance, long takes, and complex, carefully composed scenes.

His cinematic method is often described as "sweeping" and "hypnotic."

Angelopoulos has said that in his shots, “time becomes space and space becomes time.” The pauses between action or music are important to creating the total effect.

1975

He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world.

1978

In 1978, he was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.

He quickly established a characteristic style, marked by slow, episodic and ambiguous narrative structures as well as long takes (The Travelling Players, for example, consists of only 80 shots in about four hours of film).

These takes often include meticulously choreographed and complicated scenes involving many actors.

His regular collaborators include the cinematographer Giorgos Arvanitis, the screenwriter Tonino Guerra and the composer Eleni Karaindrou.

One of the recurring themes of his work is immigration, the flight from homeland and the return, as well as the history of 20th century Greece.

Angelopoulos was considered by British film critics Derek Malcolm and David Thomson as one of the world's greatest directors.

Famous film directors including Werner Herzog Emir Kusturica, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Wim Wenders, Dušan Makavejev, William Friedkin, Manuel de Oliveira, Michelangelo Antonioni among others, were also admirers of his works.

While critics have speculated on how he developed his style, Angelopoulos made clear in one interview that "The only specific influences I acknowledge are Orson Welles for his use of plan-sequence and deep focus, and Mizoguchi, for his use of time and off-camera space."

1979

He had also cited Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 work Stalker as an influence.

1995

Angelopoulos was awarded honorary doctorates by the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium in 1995, by Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, France, by the University of Essex, UK in July 2001, by the University of Western Macedonia, Greece in December 2008, and by the University of the Aegean, Greece in December 2009.

1998

In 1998 his film Eternity and a Day went on to win the Palme d'Or at the 51st edition of the Cannes Film Festival, and his films have been shown at many of the world's esteemed film festivals.

Angelopoulos won numerous awards, including the Palme d'Or at the 51st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 for Eternity and a Day (Mia aioniotita kai mia mera).

His films have been shown at the most important film festivals around the world.

Theodoros Angelopoulos was also the recipient of many awards for his long standing career.

2012

Angelopoulos died late on Tuesday, 24 January 2012, several hours after being involved in a crash while shooting his latest film, The Other Sea in Athens.

On that evening, the filmmaker had been with his crew in the area of Drapetsona, near Piraeus when he was hit by a motorcycle ridden by an off-duty police officer.

The crash occurred when Angelopoulos, 76, attempted to cross a busy road.

He was taken to a hospital, where he was treated in an intensive care unit but succumbed to his serious injuries several hours later.

Prior to his death he suffered at least one heart attack.

His funeral was a public expense, on 27 January at the First Cemetery of Athens.