Movies: Theo Angelopoulos

A deeply personal look at the life of Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, one of the foremost representatives of Greek cinema. His life reflects the tragedies faced by an entire nation during the oppressive era of military dictatorship. It is a story ...

Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film...

An interview with Japanese writer and poet Natsuki Ikezawa at Angelopoulos' home in Greece....

A poetic visit to the city of Athens, based on paintings, poems and philosophical texts....

An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world....

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

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual...

An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things....

A documentary shown on Greek television in 1981, that describes the plight of Greek villages abandoned by their inhabitants. Some scenes from this film were rewritten into Voyage to Cythera....

A magistrate reconstructs the murder of Costas Ghoussis, a labourer who was killed by his wife and her lover....

Three young people have decided to rob the safe of the estate agent Thomas Christidis, whose office is in the center of Athens. The first of them is Ntinos, who is Christidis’ clerk, the second one is Stavros, Ntinos’ younger brother who works as a b...

A documentary about cinema censorship during the dictatorship in Greece (1967- 1974), based on never-before-seen state archives. The film includes clips of films which were either censored or banned, newsreels of that era, interviews with famous dire...

A cinematic portrait of director Nikos Koundouros, this documentary explores his artistic journey through the voices of renowned Greek artists, tracing the experiences and influences that shaped his visionary work....

A film director, his relationships with women and the expression of his bitterly emotions about cinema and Greece...

An approach to the phenomenon of Thanasis Vengos, the man and the artist, through film excerpts, testimonies of his collaborators and relatives and analyses of his symbolic role in the post-war modern Greek reality. Thanasis Vengos, for more than fif...

Short film created for the 2012 anthology 'Mundo Invisível' (Invisible World)....

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek ...

Michel Demopoulos directed only one film in his life: a documentary about the shooting of Theo Angelopoulos’ O Thiasos / The Travelling Players (1975)....

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 documentary reaches up to the present day, exploring this issue through a dialogue between the people who dea...

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