FILMOGRAPHY

  • 1968 Ekpombi (short) 1970 Anaparastasi 1972 Meres tou '36 1975 O thiasos 1977 Oi kynigoi 1980 O Megalexandros 1984 Taxidi sta Kythira 1986 O melissokomos 1988 Topio stin omichli 1991 The Suspended Step of the Stork 1995 Ulysses' Gaze 1995 Lumière et compagnie (documentary) 1998 Eternity and a Day 2004 The Weeping Meadow 2007 To each his own cinema or This little blow to the heart when Lumière goes out and the film begins (segment “Three Minutes”) 2008 Trilofia II: I skoni tou hronou 2012 Mundo Invisiel (segment “ Ceu Inferior ”)


  • FILMS SHOWN IN FESTIVAL ON WHEELS

  • Misty Landscapes
    (Topio Stin Omiclhi)

Theo Angelopoulos

Theo Angelopoulos was born in Athens in 1935. After studying law, he attended courses at IDHEC. Back in Greece, he was hired as film critic for the daily Allagi, which was closed down by the military junta. He began working on Forminx Story, a feature-length film about a pop group in 1965 but the film was never finished. This was followed by Broadcast, a short he made in 1968. In 1970 he completed his first feature Reconstruction. His next three films make up a trilogy on the history of contemporary Greece. Days of ‘36 takes place just prior to the election during which General Metaxas imposed his dictatorship. The Traveling Players, received the International Critics’ Award at the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. Then with The Hunters, he introduced the story of Greek political history from 1949 to 1977. Power is once again at issue in Megalexandros, the story of a turn-of-the-century highway rob­ber who attempts to reign as tyrant. In 1998 he directed Landscape in the Mist which won the Silver Lion in Venice. In 1994, he began shooting Ulysses’ Gaze, throughout the Balkans. The film won the Grand Jury Prize and the International Critics’ Prize at Cannes and was named “European Film of the Year” by the critics. With his next film Eternity and a Day, Angelopoulos finally won the coveted Golden Palm in Cannes and represented Greece at the American Film Academy Awards. After Trilogy 1: The Weeping Meadow, he now works on a new film.