Theo Angelopoulos Movies

A history of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection.

As Yorgos Papalios trains for the Athens Marathon, his remarkable life unfolds – from shipping dynasties and revolutionary Cuba to the shaping...

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.

A City Runs Through the Festival is an anatomy of the Festival through the eyes of its own audience.

Portrait of Greek director Theo Angelopoulos.

Theo Angelopoulos recalls the defining moment in 1964 that led to him to live his entire life in Greece, and explores the concept of borders in his...

An immigrant returns to his village after many years, only to find that no one is waiting for him. When his wife and her lover murder him, an...

A documentary shown on Greek television in 1981, that describes the plight of Greek villages abandoned by their inhabitants. Some scenes from this...

Documentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998), focusing on the exhaustive preparation of the shot-sequence...

Athens 1967. The political assassinations and the background between the government and foreign powers, on the occasion of the "Polk Case", where an...

In the mid-80s, Aegokeros publishing house intended to publish a magazine about film and the theater. Theo Angelopoulos and Nikos Panayotopoulos had...

A doctor from Paris travels to North Africa to investigate the murder of a friend and find a lost boy.

A doc made during the nightmarish filming of The Suspended Step of the Stork at Florina.

A deeply personal look at the life of Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, one of the foremost representatives of Greek cinema. His life reflects the...

An actress who shone during the "golden age" of Greek cinema now lives far from the limelight, almost isolated, with only a few friends for company....

A documentary about cinema censorship during the dictatorship in Greece (1967- 1974), based on never-before-seen state archives. The film includes...

A cinematic portrait of director Nikos Koundouros, this documentary explores his artistic journey through the voices of renowned Greek artists,...

A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his...

A comic tale. The issue of film education has been a Gordian link for many years in Greece. Starting from the time of Stavrakos in 1950, the...

Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film