Theo Angelopoulos

Theo Angelopoulos, born in Athens on 27 April 1935, began studying law without finishing it and left in 1961 for Paris, where he took courses in literature and ethnology at the Sorbonne, then entered the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, which he left after a quarrel with a teacher. Back in Greece in 1964, he was until 1967 film critic for the left-wing newspaper Dimokratikí Allagí. He received the Palme d'Or in 1998 for another film. He died on 24 January 2012, hit by a motorbike at Piraeus during a break in the shooting of a film that he could not finish.

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• Feature filmThe Travelling PlayersΟ θίασοςTheo Angelopoulos · 1975Cinema