{"id":20860,"date":"2026-03-01T15:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evropafilmakt.com\/personnalites\/theo-angelopoulos\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T15:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:37:56","slug":"theo-angelopoulos","status":"publish","type":"personnalites","link":"https:\/\/www.evropafilmakt.com\/en\/personnalites\/theo-angelopoulos\/","title":{"rendered":"Theo Angelopoulos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Theo Ang\u00e9lopoulos<\/strong> is a film director and critic born in 1935 in Greece. He exiles from his country to flee the civil war and begins studies in Paris. He studies anthropology with Claude L\u00e9vi-Strauss and trains in cinema by rubbing shoulders with Jean Rouch at the French cinematheque. He will spend a year at the IDHEC from where he will be dismissed after a dispute with a professor about the shot\/countershot principle that he keeps challenging. Despite this dismissal, he shoots with friends from IDHEC his first work En noir et blanc which will never be developed due to lack of resources.    <\/p>\n\n<p>Despite this dismissal, he shoots with friends from IDHEC his first work <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">En noir et blanc<\/span><\/em> which will never be developed due to lack of resources. He returned to Greece in 1964 and continued his interest in cinema, starting as a film critic in the left-wing daily newspaper <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Demokratiki Allaghi<\/span><\/em> and in the magazine <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cin\u00e9ma moderne<\/span><\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n<p>After his first short film <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Emission<\/span><\/em> in 1968, he directed his first film <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Reconstruction <\/span><\/em>in 1970, awarded at the Thessaloniki festival. He quickly established himself with other directors like Voulgaris or Katakousinos as a major figure of the &#8220;New Greek Cinema&#8221;. He then began a trilogy of political films to denounce fascism in Greece with <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Days of 36 <\/span><\/em>in 1972, then <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Travelling Players <\/span><\/em>in 1975 and concluded in 1977 with <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Hunters<\/span>.<\/em>   <\/p>\n\n<p>Il remporte le Lion d\u2019Or \u00e0 la Mostra de Venise en 1980 avec son film He wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1980 with his film<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Alexander the Great<\/span><\/em>, where he explores the totalitarian tendencies within socialism. He then explores more intimate and personal registers with films like <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Travel to Cythera<\/span><\/em> in 1983, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Beekeeper<\/span><\/em> in 1986 or <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Landscape in the Mist<\/span><\/em> in 1988. He directs a third trilogy with <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Suspended Step of the Stork<\/span><\/em>, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ulysses&#8217; Gaze<\/span><\/em> and <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Eternity and a Day<\/span><\/em> that obtains the Palme d&#8217;Or in 1998. With this trilogy, the filmmaker opens his cinema to the international by working with international actors like Michel Piccoli, Bruno Ganz, Wilem Dafoe or Irene Jacob.    <\/p>\n\n<p>After this trilogy, he takes a break from his career and returns in 2004 with <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">El\u00e9ni : The Weeping Meadow<\/span><\/em>, the first part of a trilogy on the 20th century through the prism of a love story. In 2008, he signed <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Dust of Time<\/span><\/em>, second installment of his trilogy <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">El\u00e9ni<\/span><\/em>. He died in 2014 on the set of <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The other sea<\/span><\/em> following an accident while filming on set.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Th\u00e9o Ang\u00e9lopoulos is a film director and critic born in 1935 in Greece. 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