Theo Angelopoulos

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (Template:Langx; (27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on,Template:Sfn and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn He started making films in 1967. 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."Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn

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.[1]

Biography

Theodoros Angelopoulos was born in Athens on 27 April 1935. His father Spyros hailed from the town of Ampeliona, Messenia in the Peloponnese.Template:Sfn 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.[2]Template:Sfn 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. Angelopoulos began making films after the 1967 coup that began the Regime of the Colonels. 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). In 1978, he was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.[3]

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Theo Angelopoulos is a masterful filmmaker. He really understands how to control the frame. There are sequences in his work—the wedding scene in The Suspended Step of the Stork; the rape scene in Landscape in the Mist; or any given scene in The Traveling Players—where the slightest movement, the slightest change in distance, sends reverberations through the film and through the viewer. The total effect is hypnotic, sweeping, and profoundly emotional. His sense of control is almost otherworldly.

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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 MalcolmTemplate:Sfn and David ThomsonTemplate:Sfn as one of the world's greatest directors. Famous film directors including Werner Herzog[4] Emir Kusturica,[5] Akira Kurosawa,[6][7][8] Ingmar Bergman,[9] Wim Wenders,[10] Dušan Makavejev,[11] William Friedkin,[12] Manoel de Oliveira,[13] Michelangelo Antonioni among others,[14] 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."[15] He had also cited Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 work Stalker as an influence.[16]

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,[17] by the University of Western Macedonia, Greece in December 2008,[18] and by the University of the Aegean, Greece in December 2009.[19]

Death

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.[20] On that evening, the filmmaker had been with his crew in the area of Drapetsona, near Piraeus when he was hit by a motorcycle, which unconfirmed reports suggested was 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.[21][22] His funeral was a public expense, on 27 January at the First Cemetery of Athens.[23]

Filmography

Film and television work by Theo Angelopoulos
Year Original title English title Director Writer Notes
1968 Η εκπομπή
(I Ekpombi) 		Broadcast Yes Yes Short film
1970 Αναπαράσταση
(Anaparastasi) 		Reconstitution Yes No
1972 Μέρες του '36
(Meres tou '36) 		Days of '36 Yes No Part 1 of the "Trilogy of History"
1975 Ο Θίασος
(O Thiassos) 		The Travelling Players Yes Yes Part 2 of the "Trilogy of History"
1977 Οι Κυνηγοί
(I Kinighi) 		The Hunters Yes Yes Co-writer
Part 3 of the "Trilogy of History"
1980 Ο Μεγαλέξανδρος
(O Megalexandros) 		Alexander the Great Yes No
1983 Αθήνα, επιστροφή στην Ακρόπολη
(Athina, epistrofi stin Akropoli) 		Athens, Return to the Acropolis Yes Yes Segment of Capitali culturali d'Europa
1984 Ταξίδι στα Κύθηρα
(Taxidi sta Kythira) 		Voyage to Cythera Yes Yes Co-writer
Part 1 of the "Trilogy of Silence"
1986 Ο Μελισσοκόμος
(O Melissokomos) 		The Beekeeper Yes Yes Co-writer
Part 2 of the "Trilogy of Silence"
1988 Τοπίο στην ομίχλη
(Topio stin Omichli) 		Landscape in the Mist Yes Yes Co-writer
Part 3 of the "Trilogy of Silence"
European Film Award for Best Film 1989
1991 Το Mετέωρο Bήμα Tου Πελαργού
(To Meteoro Vima tou Pelargou) 		The Suspended Step of the Stork Yes No Part 1 of the "Trilogy of Borders"
1995 Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα
(To Vlemma tou Odyssea) 		Ulysses' Gaze Yes Yes Co-writer
Part 2 of the "Trilogy of Borders"
1995 Lumière et compagnie Lumière and Company Yes Yes Co-director/co-writer
Segment: Up to 52 seconds
1998 Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα
(Mia aioniotita kai mia mera) 		Eternity and a Day Yes Yes Co-writer
Part 3 of the "Trilogy of Borders"
Palme d'Or 1998
2004 Τριλογία: Το λιβάδι που δακρύζει
(Trilogia I: To Livadi pou dakryzi) 		Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow Yes No Part 1 of the trilogy on modern Greece
2007 Chacun son cinéma To Each His Own Cinema Yes Yes Co-director/co-writer
Segment: Trois minutes (Three Minutes)
2008 Η Σκόνη του Χρόνου
(I skoni tou chronou) 		The Dust of Time Yes No Part 2 of the trilogy on modern Greece
2011 Mundo Invisivel Invisible World Yes Yes Co-director/co-writer
Segment: Sky below
—[24] I alli thalassa The Other Sea Yes Yes Part 3 of the trilogy on modern Greece

Awards

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.[1]

Year Issuer Award Film Result
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Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Palme d'Or The Suspended Step of the Stork Nominated[48]
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Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Palme d'Or Ulysses' Gaze Nominated[49][50]
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Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Palme d'Or Eternity and a Day Won[59][60]
Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Eternity and a Day Won[59][60]
Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Audience Award – Best Feature Ulysses' Gaze 3[61]
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Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Silver Condor for Best Foreign Film Ulysses' Gaze Won[63]
Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Silver Condor for Best Foreign Film Eternity and a Day Won[64]
Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Golden Bear Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow Nominated[65]
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Lifetime achievement awards

Theodoros Angelopoulos was also the recipient of many awards for his long standing career.[1]

Year Provider Award
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Notes

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References

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Bibliography and sources

Books

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