Born-27 April 1935
Athens, Greece
Died-24 January 2012 (aged 76)
Athens, Greece
Other names-Theo
Occupation-Film director and screenwriter
Years active-1965–2012
Spouse-Phoebe Economopoulou
Angelopoulos, born in Athens on 27 April 1936, studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but after his military service went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne. He soon dropped out to study film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) before returning to Greece. There, he worked as a journalist and film critic. Angelopoulos began making films after the 1967 coup that began the Greek military dictatorship known as the Regime of the Colonels. He made his first short film in 1968 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). In 1978, he was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. Read more