Theodoros Theo Angelopoulos Greek Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος 27 April 1935 24 January 2012 was a Greek filmmaker screenwriter and film producer An acclaimed and multiawarded film director who dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on 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 Angelopoulos work described by Martin Scorsese as that of a masterful filmmaker is characterized by slightest movement slightest change in distance long takes and complex yet carefully composed scenes his cinematic method as a result is often described as sweeping and hypnotic In 1998 his film Eternity and a Day went on to win the prestigious Palme dOr at the 51st edition of the Cannes Film Festival and his films have been shown at many of the worlds most esteemed film festivals In 2000 he was the President of the Jury at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival The life of Theo Angelopoulos his work and his passion were the subject of a documentary directed in 2008 by Elodie Lelu Angelopoulos died late on Tuesday 24 January 2012 at 76 years old after being involved in a crash with a motorcycle ridden by an offduty police officer He was taken to hospital where he was treated in an intensive care unit but succumbed to his serious injuries several hours later Description above from the Wikipedia article Theo Angelopoulos licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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