Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.
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16 Facts About Theodoros Angelopoulos
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Theodoros 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' films, described by Martin Scorsese as that of "a masterful filmmaker", are characterized by the slightest movement, slightest change in distance, long takes, and complex, carefully composed scenes.
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Theodoros Angelopoulos soon dropped out to study film at the Institut des hautes etudes cinematographiques before returning to Greece.
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Theodoros Angelopoulos began making films after the 1967 coup that began the Regime of the Colonels.
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Theodoros 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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Theodoros Angelopoulos quickly established a characteristic style, marked by slow, episodic and ambiguous narrative structures as well as long takes .
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Theodoros Angelopoulos was considered by British film critics Derek Malcolm and David Thomson as one of the world's greatest directors.
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Theodoros 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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Theodoros Angelopoulos was taken to hospital, where he was treated in an intensive care unit but succumbed to his serious injuries several hours later.
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Theodoros 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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Theodoros 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.
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