Theo Angelopoulos Movies

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...

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.

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...

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

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along...

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

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

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that...

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

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet...

In the mid-80s, Aegokeros publishing house intended to publish a magazine about film and the theater. Theo Angelopoulos and Nikos Panayotopoulos had...

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...

At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.

Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.

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

During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the...

A comic tale. The issue of film education has been a Gordian link for many years in Greece. Starting from the time of Stavrakos in 1950, the...

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

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