- Theo Angelopoulos at the Internet Movie Database
- Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
- Theo Angelopoulos Internet Library.
- Musicolog entry.
- Interview with the British Film Institute (November 2003).
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Theodoros Angelopoulos (Θόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος in Greek) (born April 27, 1936) is a noted Greek film director. 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. His distinct visual style is characterised by very slow, long, meticulous takes. The Travelling Players for example, consists of around 80 shots in about four hours of film. His collaborators include the cinematographer Giorgos Arvanitis, and the composer Eleni Karaindrou. Karaindrou's soundtracks are available from ECM records. The film critic David Thomson counted Angelopoulos as one of the world's greatest living directors in his 1994 Biographical Dictionary of Film. Theodoros Angelopoulos (Source) Awards
Palaios Panteleimon (Anatolikos Olympos), a mountain village, place of the film O Megalexandros of Theo Angelopoulos. Marcello Mastroianni in the film The BeeKeeper, Goumenissa Filmography
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