Theo Angelopoulos has passed away

The leading film director lost the fight with death

 

 

The seventh art just became poorer after the death of a leading film director Theo Angelopoulos, who lost the fight with death late Tuesday after a traffic accident in Drapetsona, where he was shooting for his new film. 

The award-winning director, ambassador of Art in our country, was one of the most famous Greeks in the world and in the arts, especially in cinema. Among the top awards he received was the Palme d'Or for the film "Eternity and a Day" in 1998. 

It all started in Paris where the then young Angelopoulos had gone after leaving dropping out from the Athens’ law school, and moving to France to attend French literature courses and filmography. He also attended ethnology classes and film courses at IDHEC School and the Musée de l 'homme. In 1964 he returned home and worked as a film critic for Democratic Change newspaper until 1967. 

His first work was the small feature "Broadcast" in 1965, followed by 19 more films, each one unique and with a special cultural value. Among his works one cannot but mention "The Weeping Meadow", "Ulysses’ Gaze", "The Suspended Step of the Stork", "Voyage to Kythera" and "Eternity and a Day". 

Among the 49 awards he received during his career, it is worth mentioning the Palme d'Or at Cannes, the Gold and Silver Lion of Venice Film Festival, the Felix Award for Best European Film, the FIPRESCI Prize, and numerous critics and critics’ associations awards around the world.