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Date of Birth

17 April 1935, Athens, Greece

Birth Name

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Mini Biography

Theo Angelopoulos began to study law in Athens but broke up his studies to go to the Sorbonne in Paris in order to study literature. When he had finished his studies, he wanted to attend the School of Cinema at Paris but decided instead to go back to Greece. There he worked as a journalist and critic for the newspaper "Demokratiki Allaghi" until it was banned by the military after a coup d'état. Now unemployed, he decided to make his first movie, Anaparastasi (1970). Internationally successful was his trilogy about the history of Greece from 1930 to 1970 consisting of Meres tou '36 (1972), Thiasos, O (1975), and Kynigoi, Oi (1977). After the end of the dictatorship in Greece, Angelopoulos went to Italy, where he worked with RAI (and more money). His movies then became less political.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Volker Boehm

Trade Mark

Extremely long, elaborately staged takes.

Trivia

Ancient student at L'IDHEC (La FEMIS)

Biography in John Wakeman, editor, "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985," pp. 55-59. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987

Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1978

Personal Quotes

Women more than men are tragic figures. My mother, for example, was Antigone at times or Hecuba other times. In her life she played different roles.

Prizes are prizes, but I still need to tell that story. And being simple is the hardest thing.

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