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Thodoros Angelopoulos
Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world. He started making films in 1967. In the 1970s he made a series of political films about modern Greece.
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culture · Greek film director, screenwriter and film producer (1935–2012) · film director · screenwriter · film producer · film critic · actor · journalist · director · also Thodoros Angelopoulos, Theo Angelopoulos, Theodoros Aggelopoulos, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Angelopoulos
Born 27 April 1935 · Died 24 January 2012 · Q55168
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2012· 1 entry
Died 2012-01-24.
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2008· 1 entry
Won Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes (2008).
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2004· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of Grenoble-III University (2004).
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Awarded European Film Academy Critics Award for Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (2004).
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Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2004).
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Arts and Culture Prize of German Catholics (2001).
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1998· 4 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of Paris Nanterre University (1998).
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Awarded Palme d'Or for Eternity and a Day (1998).
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His film Eternity and a Day went on to win the Palme d'Or at the 51st edition of the Cannes Film Festival, and his films have been shown at many of the world's esteemed film festivals
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For Eternity and a Day (Mia aioniotita kai mia mera)
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1995· 3 entries
Awarded Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix for Ulysses' Gaze (1995).
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Awarded European Film Academy Critics Award for Ulysses' Gaze (1995).
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By Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, France, by the University of Essex, UK in July 2001, by the University of Western Macedonia, Greece in December 2008, and by the University of the Aegean, Greece in December
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Award for Best Film for Landscape in the Mist (1989).
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1988· 1 entry
Earned Silver Lion for Landscape in the Mist (1988).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Best Screenplay Award for Voyage to Cythera (1984).
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1980· 1 entry
Won Golden Lion for Alexander the Great (1980).
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1978· 1 entry
Was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival
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1975· 1 entry
Won Sutherland Trophy for The Travelling Players (1975).
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1968· 1 entry
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 (I Kynighoi, 1977)
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1935· 1 entry
Born 1935-04-27.
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