About
Theo Angelopoulos was a major Greek director of European art cinema. Born in Athens, he studied law and then film in Paris (IDHEC). He began as a film critic before making his first feature, Reconstruction (1970). His work, marked by long takes and choreographed sequence shots, explores history, memory, and exile. He won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1998 for Eternity and a Day. He died in 2012, struck by a motorcycle near a film set.
* 1935-04-27 — † 2012-01-24
Major works
- Reconstruction (1970)film
- The Travelling Players (1975)film
- Landscape in the Mist (1988)film
- Ulysses' Gaze (1995)film
- Eternity and a Day (1998)film
Key milestones
- 1980Won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Alexander the Great.
- 1995Won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival for Ulysses' Gaze.
- 1998Won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Eternity and a Day.
Themes
historymemoryexileborderstime
Sources: onassis.org · festival-cannes.com