Theo AngelopoulosFilmography

Born:: Athens, Greece
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Biography:: Though he may not be well known amongst the general populace of American moviegoers, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer Theo Angelopoulos is one of the premiere contemporary directors in his native Greece, and according to some critics, the world. The films of Angelopoulos contain engrossing...Read More

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Synopsis: Director Olivier Jahan offers an glimpse into The Director's Fortnight, a sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival conceived by a group of filmmakers known as the Société des Réalisateurs de Films who sought to counter the academism of the main part of the world-renowned festival. Pierre-Henri Deleau Read More

2008
The Dust of Time

Crew: Director

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli, Irène Jacob

Synopsis: A filmmaker looks to his family's history as the basis for a historical epic that reflects some of the most tumultuous events of the 20th Century in this grand-scale drama from Theo Angelopoulos. A. (Willem Dafoe) is a director struggling to complete shooting on his latest project, a sweeping Read More

2008
To Each His Own Cinema

Crew: Director

Synopsis: At the time of its production, To Each His Own Cinema represented the latest arrival in a tidal wave of internationally oriented omnibus films, with no official relation between them but all produced within a few years of one another. Few could claim a roster of talent comparable to this one Read More

2007
The Weeping Meadow

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis, Vassilis Kolovos, Eva Kotamanidou

Synopsis: Master Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos wrote and directed this downbeat look at his nation's often blighted history, as seen through the eyes of an unfortunate young couple. In 1919, a band of Greek refugees who had found a home in Odessa are forced to return to their homeland following the Read More

9/14/05
Eternity and a Day

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Achileas Skevis, Despina Bebedeli, Iris Chatziantoniou

Synopsis: Theo Angelopoulos (Reconstruction) directed this 1998 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner about a famed author nearing the end of his life. Alexander (Bruno Ganz) lives in his old seaside family home near Thessaloniki, but his daughter and son-in-law plan to sell the house, slightly damaged by Read More

10/28/98
Port Djema

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Jean-Yves Dubois, Nathalie Boutefeu, Christophe Odent

Synopsis: A doctor learns some things he never expected to know as he searches for a friend on a mission of mercy in this drama. Pierre Feldman (Jean-Yves Dubois) is a French physician who visits the African nation of Port Djema in hopes of finding a close friend and colleague. Port Djema is being torn Read More

4/23/97
Lumière and Company

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using the original Cinematographe camera under the conditions endured by the brothers. The result Read More

1995
Ulysses' Gaze

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson, Thanassis Vengos

Synopsis: Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this drama centers on the Balkan conflict as viewed through the eyes of a filmmaker named A (Harvey Keitel). Director Theo Angelopoulos wrote the screenplay, drawing from personal experiences. A is a Greek émigré director who returns to his Read More

1995
To Meteoro Vima tou Pelargou

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Ilias Logothetis

Synopsis: Four countries-France, Greece, Italy and Switzerland-converged upon the production of Suspended Step of Stork. The film is set on the Greek border, where a steady stream of refugees flows on a perpetual basis. Reporter Gregory Karr thinks that he's spotted a familiar face among the anonymous Read More

1991
Landscape in the Mist

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tania Palaiologou, Michalis Zeke, Stratos Tzortzoglou, Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli

Synopsis: Produced, directed and written in his traditionally episodic fashion by Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, the internationally produced Landscape in the Mist concentrates on a pair of runaway children, played by Tania Palaiogou and Michalis Zeke. The kids are en route to Germany, where they Read More

1988
O Melissokomos

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani, Jenny Roussea, Dinos Iliopoulos

Synopsis: In this compelling drama, Marcello Mastroianni gives a tour-de-force interpretation of a disillusioned middle-aged man, a bee keeper who inherited the passion for his vocation from his father. After weeping silently at the end of his daughter's wedding ceremony, Spyros (Mastroianni) leaves in his Read More

1986
Enas Melissokomos Petheni - O Alles Mythos

Actors: Theo Angelopoulos, Marcello Mastroianni, Serge Reggiani, Nadia Mourouzi

Synopsis: With no other apparent purpose than simply recording the making of The Beekeeper by director Theo Angelopoulos, this documentary is a very slight offering. Maria Hatzimichali Papliou follows the shooting schedule of the film from northern Greece to the Peloponnesus, and captures director Read More

1986
Taxidi Sta Kithira

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Manos Katrakis, Mary Chronopoulou

Synopsis: When an old Communist fighter from the days of the Civil War (the 1967 rightist military take over) comes back to Greece from years of exile in Russia, his denial of the past and present causes behavior that frustrates his long-estranged family. He intends to go to the island of Cythera Read More

1984
O Megalexandros

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Omero Antonutti, Grigoris Evangelatos, Norman Mozzato

Synopsis: Director Theodoros Anghelopulos has created a clever vehicle for conveying the substance of this award-winning political drama. He uses the acting techniques of Greek tragedy, such as formal posturing and long-held camera shots, as well as symbolism right out of classical Greek plays, to put Read More

1980
I Kynighi

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Vangelis Kazan, Nikos Kouros

Synopsis: This drama explores the activities of a small group of Greek leftists who supported a 1949 attempted left-wing takeover of their government. As they adjust to the failure of the coup, they help one another out and move on in their daily lives. One man, who was known to have betrayed one of his Read More

1977
O Thiassos

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Eva Kotamanidou, Vangelis Kazan, Aliki Georgouli, Stratos Pachis

Synopsis: In a complex interweaving of drama, history and allegory, this Greek film tells the story of the tours of a theatrical troupe along the Greek isles between 1939 and 1952. In each town, the troupe enacts the play "Golfo the Shepherdess." Simultaneously, an actress in the troupe is searching for a Read More

1975
Meres Tou 36

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Imeres Tou 36 or Days of '36 is a political and crime thriller set in Greece in 1936 and based on a true story. Concerns for political stability override concerns for justice or fair play at this chaotic time in Greek history. When the man convicted of murdering a politician protests his Read More

1972
Anaparastasis

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Thanos Grammenos, Inuta Stathopoulo, Yennis Totsicas, Petros Hoedas

Synopsis: Theo Angelopoulos, one of Greece's most acclaimed filmmakers, catapulted onto the world stage with this award-winning mystery set in a remote mountain village in Epirus. Michalis Fotopoulos is the hard-working man who was forced to seek employment abroad due to economic necessity. Upon returning Read More

1970