Theo Angelopoulos Movies

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

An ailing Greek man attempts to take a young, illegal Albanian immigrant home.

The first part of an incomplete trilogy telling the story of the greek people. The film begins in 1919, with Greek immigrants from Odessa arriving...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that...

Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.

A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in...

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing in the government into disarray.

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along...

A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.

An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things.

During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the...

An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.

Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet...

Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.

A hstory of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection.

Greek Theo Angelopoulos traveling from Athens to Ostia, the Roman beach where Pasolini was killed. Far from there, in a Spanish train station,...

A magistrate reconstructs the murder of Costas Ghoussis, a labourer who was killed by his wife and her lover.

Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film