Theo Angelopoulos

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Theo Angelopoulos (2009)

Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos ( Greek Θόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος ; born April 27, 1935 in Athens ; † January 24, 2012 in Neo Faliro, Piraeus ) was a Greek film director , screenwriter and producer . In a career spanning more than five decades, he has directed 20 short and feature films. He was one of the most prominent European auteur filmmakers and was considered an important chronicler of his home country. In 1998 he won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival for his feature film Eternity and a Day .

Life

Theo Angelopoulos was born in 1935 (according to other sources April 27, 1936 or 1937) during the dictatorship of General Ioannis Metaxas as the son of a perfumery owner and grew up with three siblings. It was shaped by the death of his eldest sister, the invasion of German troops in 1941 and the arrest of the apolitical father by the Greek People's Liberation Army ELAS in 1944. Angelopoulos attended the University of Athens from 1953 to 1957 and studied law , but finished his studies without exam. After military service (1959/60) he went to Paris to enroll at the Sorbonne , where he heard, among other things, philosophy from Claude Lévi-Strauss . Fascinated by French cinema, e.g. B. the films of Jean-Luc Godard , he began to study film at IDHEC , which he had to leave after a year because of his independent film aesthetic. When Angelopoulos returned to Greece in 1964, he worked as a journalist, film critic and lecturer.

His first short film was made in 1968 to avoid the censorship of the Greek military dictatorship . In the 1970s he made his first feature films Meres Tou 36 , The Wandering Actors and The Hunters , in which he engages with modern Greek society. Angelopoulos, a "time-traveling surveyor" ( Wolfram Schütte ), developed an unmistakable style: he implements episodic and ambiguous structures in slow sequences.

After the end of the dictatorship in Greece, Angelopoulos continued to turn to political issues in 1974, albeit not exclusively. In particular, the decline of socialist ideology ( The Great Alexander , The Beekeeper , The Glance of Odysseus ), migration movements ( The Stork's Floating Step ) , exile experiences (The Journey to Kythira) , the collapse of the Balkans in the 1990s (The Glance of Odysseus ) , the threat to nature from technology ( landscape in the fog , the earth is crying ), the breaking of family structures (the beekeeper) and the sick, lonely person ( eternity and a day ) become the focus of Angelopoulos' work.

The cameraman Giorgos Arvanitis and, since Die Reise nach Kythira, the film music by the Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou also contribute to the artistic impact of the films . Due to the co-production of his cinematic trilogy of silence with ZDF ( Das kleine Fernsehspiel , consisting of Die Reise nach Kythira , Der Bienenzüchter and Landschaft im Nebel ), part of his cinematic work was made available to the German audience on television in the 1980s.

Angelopoulos shot scenes for several of his films in Florina in Western Macedonia . The bishop of Florina Augustinos Kantiotis excommunicated the director in 1991 because he saw the films that he saw as anti-national and anti-church, e.g. B. The Beekeeper and The Stork's Floating Step had turned in his diocese. However, the bishop's decision met with rejection both in the population of Florina and in Greek Orthodox church circles.

In 2005 Angelopoulos was the jury president of the World Film Festival , where he was awarded a special prize for his life's work. In the course of his career he won over 40 international film and festival awards and was nominated for twelve more. One of his greatest achievements was winning the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Eternity and a Day . In 1989, Landschaft im Nebel was awarded the European Felix Film Prize.

In 2012 Angelopoulos died in a hospital near Piraeus as a result of a traffic accident. While he was filming his film project The Other Sea, he was hit by a motorcyclist. The film should take on the Greek sovereign debt crisis as a theme.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1968: Η Εκπομπή (I Ekpombí [dt. "The broadcast"], short film)
  • 1970: Reconstruction (Αναπαράσταση Anaparástasi )
  • 1972: Days of 36 (Μέρες του 36 Méres tou 36 )
  • 1975: The traveling actors (Ο θίασος O thíasos )
  • 1977: The Hunters (Οι κυνηγοί I kynigí )
  • 1980: The great Alexander (Ο Μεγαλέξανδρος O Megaléxandros )
  • 1981: One village, one resident ( Χωριό ένα, κάτοικος ένας - Chorió éna, kátikos énas , short film)
  • 1982: Athens, return to the Acropolis (Αθήνα, επιστροφή στην Ακρόπολη Athína, epistrofí stin Akrópoli )
  • 1984: The trip to Kythira (Ταξίδι στα Κύθηρα Taxídi sta Kýthira )
  • 1986: The beekeeper (Ο μελισσοκόμος O melissokómos )
  • 1988: Landscape in the Fog (Τοπίο στην ομίχλη Topío stin omíchli )
  • 1991: The floating step of the stork (Το μετέωρο βήμα του πελαργού To metéoro víma tou pelargoú )
  • 1995: The look of Odysseus (Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα To vlémma tou Odysséa )
  • 1998: Eternity and a day (Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα Miá eoniótita ke miá méra )
  • 2004: The earth is crying (Τριλογία Ι: Το λιβάδι που δακρύζει Trilogía I: To livádi pou dakrýzei )
  • 2008: The Dust of Time (Τριλογία ΙΙ: H σκόνη του χρόνου Trilogía II: I skóni tou chrónou )
  • 2011: Mundo Invisível (Episode: Céu Inferior )

Awards

  • 1968: Short film award from the Greek Film Critics Association at the Thessaloniki Film Festival for I Ekpombi
  • 1970: Best art film and best young director at the Thessaloniki Film Festival and best film by the Greek Film Critics Association for Reconstruction
  • 1971: FIPRESCI Prize - Honorable Mention from the Berlin Film Festival for reconstruction
  • 1972: Director Award of the Thessaloniki Film Festival for days of 36
  • 1973: FIPRESCI Prize of the Berlin Film Festival for days of 36
  • 1975: Best film, directing and screenplay award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival for The Traveling Actors
  • 1975: Interfilm Prize of the Berlin Film Festival for the traveling actors
  • 1975: Cannes Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize for The Traveling Actors
  • 1975: British Film Institute's Sutherland Trophy for The Traveling Actor
  • 1980: Best film at the Thessaloniki Film Festival and best film by the Greek Film Critics Association for The Great Alexander
  • 1980: FIPRESCI Prize of the Venice Film Festival for The Great Alexander
  • 1980: Kinema Jumpō Prize for The Wandering Actors (Best Foreign Language Film Director)
  • 1984: Cannes Film Festival screenplay and FIPRESCI award for trip to Kythera
  • 1988: Silver Lion, Pasinetti Prize, Sergio Trasatti Prize, OCIC Prize, CICAE Prize of the Venice Film Festival for Landscape in Fog
  • 1989: Interfilm Prize of the Berlin Film Festival for Landscape in Fog
  • 1995: Grand Jury Prize and FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for The Eye of Ulysses
  • 1995: FIPRESCI Prize of the European Film Prize for The Eye of Odysseus
  • 1996: Léon Moussinac Prize of the French Film Critics Association for The Eye of Odysseus (Best Foreign Film)
  • 1996: Silver Ribbon from Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani for The Glance of Odysseus (Best Foreign Director, European Silver Ribbon)
  • 1997: Premio Sant Jordi for The Eye of Odysseus (Best Foreign Film)
  • 1997: Mainichi Eiga Concours for The Glance of Odysseus (Best Foreign Language Film)
  • 1998: Palme d'Or and Ecumenical Jury Prize of the Cannes Film Festival for Eternity and a Day
  • 1998: Best Film, Director and Screenplay Award of the Thessaloniki Film Festival for Eternity and a Day
  • 1999: Cóndor de Plata of the Argentine Film Critics Association for The View of Odysseus (Best Foreign Film)
  • 2001: Art and Culture Prize of the German Catholics
  • 2003: Honorary Award from the Copenhagen International Film Festival
  • 2004: FIPRESCI Prize of the European Film Prize for The Earth Weeps
  • 2004: Grand Prix Special des Amériques des World Film Festival
  • 2005: Special Jury Prize of the International Fajr Film Festival for The Earth Weeps
  • 2010: Lifetime Achievement Award of the Yerevan Film Festival

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Theo Angelopoulos died at the age of 76 at derstandard.at, January 25, 2012 (accessed on January 26, 2012).
  2. ↑ Theo Angelopoulos . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 11/2010 from March 16, 2010 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
  3. ↑ Prize winners and laudators from 1990 to 2011. (No longer available online.) German Bishops' Conference, archived from the original on December 6, 2014 ; Retrieved December 6, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dbk.de
personal data
SURNAME Angelopoulos, Theo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Angelopoulos, Theodoros
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek film director
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2012
Place of death Neo Faliro, Piraeus