Theo Angelopoulos Films

Theo Angelopoulos, who sadly died in 2012, was one of the overlooked masters of modern cinema. A former critic, he trained at the famous IDHEC school in Paris, where he was profoundly influenced by the great film anthropologist Jean Rouch.

His sombre, intellectually rigorous amalgamations of myth and history often adopt a Brechtian app... show more >

Theo Angelopoulos, who sadly died in 2012, was one of the overlooked masters of modern cinema. A former critic, he trained at the famous IDHEC school in Paris, where he was profoundly influenced by the great film anthropologist Jean Rouch.

His sombre, intellectually rigorous amalgamations of myth and history often adopt a Brechtian approach to narrative structure along with the meditative long-take visual style of Antonioni and Jancsó. But Angelopoulos also attained a distinctive voice that alarmed the Greek authorities and earned him an international arthouse following.

Greece's most celebrated filmmaker and one of the world's great directors, his body of work examined the history of modern Greece from a social and political perspective.
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