Theo Angelopoulos has died
The Festival de Cannes is saddened by the death of the founder of the “New Greek Cinema” during the shooting of his last film, The Other Sea, the final opus in his trilogy spanning the 20th century, and focusing on the financial failure of Greece and Europe.
Born in 1935 in Athens (Greece), Theo Angelopoulos studied law before joining the I.D.H.E.C. (Paris). From 1964 to 1967, he worked as a film critic for the Greek newspaper “Allagi”. After the short film Ekpombi, in 1970 Theo Angelopoulos made his first feature film, Resurrection of a Crime. The filmmaker then turned his gaze to the history of his country, with a trilogy of Days of 36, The Travelling Players and The Hunters. In 1980, he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Mostra for Alexander the Great, and then the Silver Lion in 1988 for Landscape in the Mist. During the 38th Festival de Cannes, he received the Prize for Best Screenplay and the International Critics’ F.I.P.R.E.S.C.I award for his Voyage to Cythera. In 1995, Ulysses’ Gaze carried off the Grand Prix at the Festival de Cannes and in 1998, Eternity and a day was crowned with the Palme d’Or. The Weeping Meadow in 2004 and The Dust of Time in 2008 were the first two parts of his triptych spanning the 20th century.
SELECTIVE FILMOGRAPHY
2008: The Dust of time
2007: Three Minutes (SF – To Each his own Cinema).
2004: The Weeping Meadow
1998: Eternity and a Day
1995: Ulysses’ Gaze
1990: The Suspended Step of the Stork
1988: Landscape in the Mist
1986: The Beekeeper
1984: Voyage to Cythera
1980: Alexander the Great
1977: The Hunters
1975: The Travelling Players
1972: Days of 36
1970: Resurrection of a Crime
