Editing Theo Angelopoulos (section)

==Biography==
Theodoros Angelopoulos was born in Athens on 27 April 1935. His father Spyros hailed from the town of Ampeliona, [[Messenia]] in the [[Peloponnese]].{{sfn|Horton|1999|p=18}} During the [[Greek Civil War]], his father was taken hostage and returned when Angelopoulos was 9 years old; according to the director, the absence of his father and looking for him among the dead bodies (during the "[[Dekemvriana]]" in Athens) had a great impact on his cinematography.<ref>"Theodoros Angelopoulos", editions Kastanioti, p. 189.</ref>{{sfn|Horton|1999|p=18}} He studied law at the [[National and Kapodistrian University of Athens]], but after his military service went to Paris to attend the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]]. He soon dropped out to study film at the [[Institut des hautes études cinématographiques]] (IDHEC) before returning to Greece. There, he worked as a journalist and film critic. Angelopoulos began making films after the 1967 coup that began the [[Regime of the Colonels]]. He 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]]'' (''Meres Tou 36'', 1972), ''[[The Travelling Players]]'' (''O Thiassos'', 1975) and ''[[The Hunters (1977 film)|The Hunters]]'' (''I Kynighoi'', 1977). In 1978, he was a member of the jury at the [[28th Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="berlinale">{{Cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1978/04_jury_1978/04_Jury_1978.html |title=Berlinale 1978: Juries |access-date=4 August 2010 |work=berlinale.de }}</ref>

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He quickly established a characteristic style, marked by slow, episodic and ambiguous narrative structures as well as [[long take]]s (''The Travelling Players'', for example, consists of only 80 shots in about four hours of film). These takes often include meticulously choreographed and complicated scenes involving many actors.

His regular collaborators include the [[cinematographer]] [[Giorgos Arvanitis]], the screenwriter [[Tonino Guerra]] and the composer [[Eleni Karaindrou]]. One of the recurring themes of his work is immigration, the flight from homeland and the return, as well as the history of 20th century Greece. Angelopoulos was considered by British film critics [[Derek Malcolm]]{{sfn|Malcolm|2000}} and [[David Thomson (film critic)|David Thomson]]{{sfn|Thomson|2002|pp=21–22}} as one of the world's greatest directors. Famous film directors including [[Werner Herzog]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=el-GR&page=607&newsid=2006|title=55ο ΦΚΘ: 1914 – 2014: 100 Χρόνια Ελληνικός Κινηματογράφος |website=Filmfestival.gr |publisher=Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Θεσσαλονίκης |language=Greek |access-date=19 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305031639/http://www.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=el-GR&page=607&newsid=2006 |archive-date=2016-03-05 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Emir Kusturica]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.in.gr/culture/article/?aid=1231147161 |language=Greek |title=Ο Αγγελόπουλος ήταν μεγάλη μορφή του ευρωπαϊκού πολιτισμού, είπε ο Εμίρ Κουστουρίτσα|date=2012-01-25 |website=In.gr |access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref> [[Akira Kurosawa]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.in.gr/entertainment/cinema/news/article/?aid=1300140568 |title=Οι Ακίρα Κουροσάουα, Βιμ Βέντερς, Ίνγκμαρ Μπέργκμαν είπαν για τον Αγγελόπουλο... |language=Greek |date=2013-01-22 |website=In.gr |access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Lee Thomas-Mason |title=From Stanley Kubrick to Martin Scorsese: Akira Kurosawa once named his top 100 favourite films of all time |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/akira-kurosawa-100-favourite-films-list/ |date=12 January 2021 |magazine=[[Far Out Magazine]] |access-date=25 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Akira Kurosawa's Top 100 Movies! | url = http://wildgrounds.com/index.php/2009/01/17/akira-kurosawas-top-100-movies/ | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100327124349/http://wildgrounds.com/index.php/2009/01/17/akira-kurosawas-top-100-movies/ | archive-date = 27 March 2010 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> [[Ingmar Bergman]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://edu4u.gr/Comments.aspx?qId=9397 |title=Θ. Αγγελόπουλος: πέθανε ο ποιητής των εικόνων |language=Greek |date=2012-01-25 |website=Edu4u.gr |access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref> [[Wim Wenders]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oneman.gr/keimena/diabasma/malebox/o-thodwros-aggelopoylos-mesa-apo-ta-logia-twn-allwn.1590143.html |title=Ο Θόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος μέσα από τα λόγια των άλλων|last=Δημητρόπουλος|first=Θοδωρής |language=Greek|website=Oneman.gr |access-date=19 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530125856/http://www.oneman.gr/keimena/diabasma/malebox/o-thodwros-aggelopoylos-mesa-apo-ta-logia-twn-allwn.1590143.html |archive-date=2016-05-30 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Dušan Makavejev]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://antikleidi.com/2012/01/25/aggelopoulos-rip/ |title=Θόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος, 1935 – 2012|date=2012-01-25 |website=Antikleidi.com |language=Greek |accessdate=19 May 2023}}</ref> [[William Friedkin]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=440811 |title=Επηρεάστηκα από τον Φελίνι, τον Αντονιόνι και τον Αγγελόπουλο |last=Μικελίδης |language=Greek |first=Νίνος Φένεκ |date=2014-07-26 |website=enet.gr |publisher=Ελευθεροτυπία |access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref> [[Manoel de Oliveira]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thetoc.gr/politismos/article/manouel-nte-olibeira-o-prutanis-tou-sinema-efuge-se-ilikia-106-etwn |title=Μανουέλ ντε Ολιβέιρα: Ο πρύτανης του σινεμά «έφυγε» σε ηλικία 106 ετών {{!}}thetoc.gr |date=2015-04-02 |website=The TOC |language=el-GR |accessdate=19 May 2023}}</ref> [[Michelangelo Antonioni]] among others,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |url=http://www.lifo.gr/team/readersdigest/28700 |title='Δεν έχω πει ακόμα αυτό που θα 'θελα να πω'. Η πιο ειλικρινής συνέντευξη του Θ. Αγγελόπουλου |last=Σταθογιάννης |first=Πάνο |language=Greek |date=2012-01-26 |website=LiFO.gr |access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref> were also admirers of his works.

While critics have speculated on how he developed his style, Angelopoulos made clear in one interview that "The only specific influences I acknowledge are [[Orson Welles]] for his use of plan-sequence and [[deep focus]], and [[Kenji Mizoguchi|Mizoguchi]], for his use of time and off-camera space."<ref>The Last Modernist, ed. Andrew Horton, 1997</ref> He had also cited [[Andrei Tarkovsky]]'s 1979 work ''[[Stalker (1979 film)|Stalker]]'' as an influence.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Andrew |last1=Horton |title=The Films of Theo Angelopoulos – A Cinema of Contemplation |date=29 September 2016 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1400884421 |page=73 |chapter=3 – Angelopoulos, the Continuous Image and Cinema |quote=We should realize, however, that Angelopoulos is an unusual paradox in the history of cinema: he is very clearly "Greek" as I have demonstrated, and yet he is an international filmmaker who has been influenced by filmmakers from around the globe. He has observed: "I draw techniques from everything I've seen{{nbsp}}.... I continue to love{{nbsp}}... very much the films of Murnau, Mizoguchi, Antonioni. More recently: Tarkovsky's Stalker, Godard's Every Man for Himself and of course Ordet{{nbsp}}....}}</ref>

Angelopoulos was awarded honorary doctorates by the [[Université libre de Bruxelles]], Belgium in 1995, by [[Paris West University Nanterre La Défense]], France, by the [[University of Essex]], UK in July 2001,<ref name="UoE-or-2001">{{Cite web |url=http://www.essex.ac.uk/honorary_graduates/or/2001/t-angelopoulos-oration.aspx |title=Honorary Graduates :: Theodoros Angelopoulos |publisher=[[University of Essex]] |date=9 December 2009 }}</ref> by the [[University of Western Macedonia]], Greece in December 2008,<ref name="UoWM-2008">{{Cite web |url=http://www.uowm.gr/registration/eggrafa/Deltio_Typou_anagoreusis_Theodorou_Aggelopoulou.pdf |title=Honorary Graduates :: Theodoros Angelopoulos |publisher=[[University of Western Macedonia]] |date=15 December 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205044559/http://uowm.gr/registration/eggrafa/Deltio_Typou_anagoreusis_Theodorou_Aggelopoulou.pdf |archive-date=5 February 2009 }}</ref> and by the [[University of the Aegean]], Greece in December 2009.<ref name="UotA-2009">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ct.aegean.gr/events/angelopoulos_epitimos/page/omilies.htm |title=Honorary Graduates :: Theodoros Angelopoulos |publisher=[[University of the Aegean]] |date=12 July 2001 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127122524/http://www.ct.aegean.gr/events/angelopoulos_epitimos/page/omilies.htm |archive-date=27 January 2012 }}</ref>