Theo Angelopoulos has passed away

The award-winning director, an ambassador of the arts for our country, was one of the most famous Greeks in the world and in the arts, especially in cinema. Among the top awards he had received was the Palme d'Or for the film "An Eternity and A Day" in 1998. 

It all started in Paris where the then young Angelopoulos had gone after dropping out of the Athens law school and moving to France to attend French literature courses and filmography. He also attended ethnology classes and film courses at the IDHEC School and the Musée de l' Homme. In 1964 he returned home and worked as a film critic for the Democratic Change newspaper until 1967. 

His first work was the short feature "Broadcast" in 1965, followed by 19 more films, each one unique and of special cultural value. Among his works one cannot but mention "The Weeping Meadow", "Ulysses’ Gaze", "The Suspended Step of the Stork", "Voyage to Kythera" and "An Eternity and a Day". 

Among the 49 awards he received during his career, we should mention the Palme d' Or at Cannes, the Gold and Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the Felix Award for Best European Film, the FIPRESCI Prize, and numerous critics and critics’ associations awards around the world.