Theodoros Angelopoulos
Date of Birth: 27 Apr 1935
Country: Greece
Biography: Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world.
Total Credits at Criticker: 3 (Actor), 18 (Director), 16 (Writer)
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Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Among them, he notices an old man and thinks he his an important greek politician who disappeared misteriously a few years ago. Back in Athens, he asks this politician's former wife to come and identify him. A slow and dry meditation about inhumanity of borders. (imdb)
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Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home. (imdb)
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40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes. The results run the gamut from Zhang Yimou's convention-thwarting joke to David Lynch's bizarre miniature epic. (imdb)
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This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is also taken care by Alexis' family. The refugees build a small village somewhere near a river and we watch as the kids grow up and fall in love. But difficult times of dictatorship and war are coming... (imdb)
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A group of traveling players peregrinates through Greece attempting to perform the popular erotic drama Golfo The Shepherdess... (imdb)
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"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first film shot by the Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly criss-crossed the Balkans and, without regard for national and ethnic strife, recorded the region's history and customs... (imdb)
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Road movie about two children (Voula and Alexandre) searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence. (imdb)
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Based on a real story the film reconstructs a crime in a remote village of Northern Greece. (bfi.org.uk)
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Ekpombi (1968) - Short Film
Constructed as series of interviews of people on the street discussing their personal fantasies when prompted by the filmmakers to use passers-by as the objects. (Yahoo! Movies)
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It is 1936 in Greece, shortly before the Metaxas' dictatorship. A former drug trafficker and police informer, Sofianos, is in prison because of the assassination of a trade unionist during a rally. A conservative politician, Kriezis, with whom Sofianos had a homosexual relationship, visits him in prison. Using a smuggled gun Sofianos manages to take him hostage in his cell and blackmails the police in order to be released... (imdb)
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A thematic epilogue to the historical trilogy that centers on a group of middle-aged hunters who discover the perfectly preserved, 30 year-old frozen remains of a partisan (bearing an uncoincidental resemblance to the Byzantine image of Jesus Christ) and, compelled to deliberate on its 'proper' disposition, spend a haunted, restless evening confronting their past... (sensesofcinema.com)
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Not about Alexander the Great(356-323 BC), but a mysterious rebellion in the beginning of the 20th century in Greece... (IMDB Comments)
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An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren't the way he had hoped for. (imdb)
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Spiros retires as a schoolteacher, his daughter is married, and he starts his annual journey with his bees to get honey from different areas. In his truck he finds a young girl who has just been abandoned and has no roots. Spiros lets her follow for a day... (imdb)
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Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence (2007)
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema. (imdb)
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A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. At the same time the film is a long journey into the vast history and the events of the last fifty years that left their mark on the 20th century.
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An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world. (imdb)
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