Theodoros Angelopoulos(1935-2012)
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Theo Angelopoulos began to study law in Athens but broke up his studies
to go to the Sorbonne in Paris in order to study literature. When he
had finished his studies, he wanted to attend the School of Cinema at
Paris but decided instead to go back to Greece. There he worked as a
journalist and critic for the newspaper "Demokratiki Allaghi" until it
was banned by the military after a coup d'état. Now unemployed, he
decided to make his first movie,
Anaparastasi (1970). Internationally
successful was his trilogy about the history of Greece from 1930 to
1970 consisting of
Days of '36 (1972),
The Travelling Players (1975), and
Oi kynigoi (1977). After the end of
the dictatorship in Greece, Angelopoulos went to Italy, where he worked
with RAI (and more money). His movies then became less political.
