Theo Angelopoulos

He studied law in Athens but after military service he went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne. He soon dropped out to study film at the IDHEC[?] before returning to Greece. Back home he worked as a journalist and film critic until the coup.

He made his first short film in 1968 and went on in the 1970s to make long films concerned with modern Greece - Meres Tou 36, O Thiassos and I Kynighoi. He quickly established a characteristic style, marked by slow, episodic and ambiguous structure and long, "sequence shot" takes. He moved into less political works after the end of the dictatorship, gaining Italian funding.

O Megalexandros won the Golden Lion[?] at the 1980 Venice Film Festival, and Topio stin Omichli shared the Silver Lion at Venice in 1988.

Filmography

• I Ekpombi[?] (1968)
• Anaparastasis[?] (1970)
• Meres tou 36[?] (1972)
• O Thiassos[?] (1975)
• I Kinighi[?] (1977)
• O Megalexandros[?] (1980)
• Athens (1982)
• Taxidi stin Kythera[?] (1984)
• O Melissokomos[?] (1986)
• Topio stin Omichli[?] (1988)
• To Meteoro Vima tou Pelargou[?] (1991)
• To Vlemma tou Odyssea[?] (1995)
• Mia aiwniothta kai mia mera[?] (1998)