FILM DIRECTOR

Theo Angelopoulos

1935 - 2012

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Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος; (27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Theo Angelopoulos is the 52nd most popular film director (up from 69th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Greece (up from 121st in 2019) and the most popular Greek Film Director.

Theo Angelopoulos is a Greek filmmaker who is most famous for his long, slow, and meandering films that are often set in rural Greece.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Theo Angelopoulos ranks 52 out of 2,041. Before him are Ken Loach, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Andrzej Wajda, Robert Zemeckis, George Miller, and Oliver Stone. After him are Roger Vadim, Takeshi Kitano, Yasujirō Ozu, Jack L. Warner, Stephen Hillenburg, and Paul Verhoeven.

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Among people born in 1935, Theo Angelopoulos ranks 20. Before him are Kenzaburō Ōe, Faisal II of Iraq, Arvo Pärt, Isao Takahata, Julie Andrews, and Michel Aoun. After him are David Prowse, John Saxon, Ágota Kristóf, Erich von Däniken, David Harvey, and Françoise Sagan. Among people deceased in 2012, Theo Angelopoulos ranks 14. Before him are Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., I. K. Gujral, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Joseph Murray, Yitzhak Shamir, and Ahmed Ben Bella. After him are George Tupou V, Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Clarke Duncan, Elinor Ostrom, Jon Lord, and Ernest Borgnine.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Theo Angelopoulos ranks 104 out of 1,024. Before him are Lysimachus (-361), Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt (1789), Diotima of Mantinea (-450), John V Palaiologos (1332), Cimon (-510), and Myron (-500). After him are Antiochus V Eupator (-173), Admetus (null), Dionysius the Areopagite (100), Aristides (-550), Agrippina the Elder (-14), and Eleftherios Venizelos (1864).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Greece

Among film directors born in Greece, Theo Angelopoulos ranks 1. After him are Costa-Gavras (1933), Şerif Gören (1944), Yorgos Lanthimos (1973), Nikos Koundouros (1926), Athina Rachel Tsangari (1966), and Phedon Papamichael (1962).

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