As per our current Database, Theodoros Angelopoulos has been died on 24 January, 2012 at Piraeus, Greece.
When Theodoros Angelopoulos die, Theodoros Angelopoulos was 77 years old.
| Popular As | Theodoros Angelopoulos |
| Occupation | Director |
| Age | 77 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | April 27, 1935 (Athens, Greece) |
| Birthday | April 27 |
| Town/City | Athens, Greece |
| Nationality | Greece |
Theodoros Angelopoulos’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Theodoros Angelopoulos was born in the Year of the Pig. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Pig are extremely nice, good-mannered and tasteful. They’re perfectionists who enjoy finer things but are not perceived as snobs. They enjoy helping others and are good companions until someone close crosses them, then look out! They’re intelligent, always seeking more knowledge, and exclusive. Compatible with Rabbit or Goat.
Theo Angelopoulos began to study law in Athens but broke up his studies to go to the Sorbonne in Paris in order to study literature. When he had finished his studies, he wanted to attend the School of Cinema at Paris but decided instead to go back to Greece.
There he worked as a journalist and critic for the newspaper "Demokratiki Allaghi" until it was banned by the military after a coup d'état. Now unemployed, he decided to make his first movie, Anaparastasi (1970).
Internationally successful was his trilogy about the history of Greece from 1930 to 1970 consisting of Days of 36 (1972), O thiasos (1975), and Oi kynigoi (1977). After the end of the dictatorship in Greece, Angelopoulos went to Italy, where he worked with RAI (and more money).
His movies then became less political.
Extremely long, elaborately staged takes
Shots in his films often drift back and forth in time
Often shoots with rainy, wintry and moody weather in provincial Greece
Uses long, static takes combined with complex tracking shots and beautiful landscape photography.
