Born in Athens in 1935 and died in 2012 after being struck by a motorcycle while filming, Angelopoulos was the leading Greek director of his generation. His slow, majestic films use long takes to explore Greek history, exile and memory.
Filmography
- Days of '36 (1972)
- The Travelling Players (1975)
- The Hunters (1977)
- Alexander the Great (1980)
- Voyage to Cythera (1984)
- The Beekeeper (1986)
- Landscape in the Mist (1988)
- The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)
- Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
- Eternity and a Day (1998)
- The Weeping Meadow (2004)