Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.
16 Facts About Theo Angelopoulos
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Theo Angelopoulos dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world.
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Theodoros Angelopoulos was born in Athens on 27 April 1935.
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Theo Angelopoulos studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but after his military service went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne.
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Theo Angelopoulos soon dropped out to study film at the Institut des hautes etudes cinematographiques before returning to Greece.
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Theo Angelopoulos began making films after the 1967 coup that began the Regime of the Colonels.
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Theo Angelopoulos made his first short film in 1968 and in the 1970s he began making a series of political feature films about modern Greece: Days of '36, The Travelling Players and The Hunters.
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Theo Angelopoulos quickly established a characteristic style, marked by slow, episodic and ambiguous narrative structures as well as long takes.
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Theo Angelopoulos was considered by British film critics Derek Malcolm and David Thomson as one of the world's greatest directors.
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Theo Angelopoulos was awarded honorary doctorates by the Universite libre de Bruxelles, Belgium in 1995, by Paris West University Nanterre La Defense, France, by the University of Essex, UK in July 2001, by the University of Western Macedonia, Greece in December 2008, and by the University of the Aegean, Greece in December 2009.
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Theo Angelopoulos died late on Tuesday, 24 January 2012, several hours after being involved in a crash while shooting his latest film, The Other Sea in Athens.
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The crash occurred when Theo Angelopoulos, 76, attempted to cross a busy road.
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Theo Angelopoulos was taken to a hospital, where he was treated in an intensive care unit but succumbed to his serious injuries several hours later.
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Theo Angelopoulos won numerous awards, including the Palme d'Or at the 51st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 for Eternity and a Day.
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Theo Angelopoulos's films have been shown at the most important film festivals around the world.
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Theodoros Angelopoulos was the recipient of many awards for his long standing career.