Theo Angelopoulos

Theodoros Angelopoulos was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer who lived from 27 April 1935 to 24 January 2012. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on and was one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world. In the 1970s he made a series of political films about modern Greece, and his films are characterized by slight movement and distance changes, long takes and complex, carefully composed scenes. Eternity and a Day is listed here as a work.