Movies: Theo Angelopoulos

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the...

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 ...

The first part of an incomplete trilogy telling the story of the greek people. The film begins in 1919, with Greek immigrants from Odessa arriving near Thessaloniki. Led by the charismatic Spyros, they establish a new settlement in the delta of a riv...

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...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds,...

A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago....

Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany....

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more....

An ailing Greek man attempts to take a young, illegal Albanian immigrant home....

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

A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and c...

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

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

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

Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film...

Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens meet his demand for amnesty for his band of freedom fighters....

Greek Theo Angelopoulos traveling from Athens to Ostia, the Roman beach where Pasolini was killed. Far from there, in a Spanish train station, Víctor Erice wanders in an interview about the film resistance. And in Italy, Tonino Guerra, Ninetto Davoli...

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

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

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