Movies: Theo Angelopoulos

Athens 1967. The political assassinations and the background between the government and foreign powers, on the occasion of the "Polk Case", where an innocent leftist was convicted for the murder of an American journalist in Greece....

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

An actress who shone during the "golden age" of Greek cinema now lives far from the limelight, almost isolated, with only a few friends for company. Her decision to return to the stage, following a proposal from an old colleague, will bring her into ...

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

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

A doc made during the nightmarish filming of The Suspended Step of the Stork at Florina....

A documentary shown on Greek television in 1981, that describes the plight of Greek villages abandoned by their inhabitants. Some scenes from this film were rewritten into Voyage to Cythera....

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

Greek Theo Angelopoulos traveling from Athens to Ostia, the Roman beach where Pasolini was killed. Far from there, in a Spanish train station, Víctor Erice wanders in an interview about the film resistance. And in Italy, Tonino Guerra, Ninetto Davoli...

Documentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998), focusing on the exhaustive preparation of the shot-sequence that closes the film, and the peculiar way in which Theo Angelopoulos works with his technical team ...

A City Runs Through the Festival is an anatomy of the Festival through the eyes of its own audience....

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Three young people have decided to rob the safe of the estate agent Thomas Christidis, whose office is in the center of Athens. The first of them is Ntinos, who is Christidis’ clerk, the second one is Stavros, Ntinos’ younger brother who works as a b...

A Greek strongman seduces a young tourist and spend the day with her. "Jimmis the Tiger" is a family sportsman, who makes a living by showing off his skills in impromptu "shows" on the streets of Athens. One day a young German woman approaches him an...

A comic tale. The issue of film education has been a Gordian link for many years in Greece. Starting from the time of Stavrakos in 1950, the documentary reaches up to the present day, exploring this issue through a dialogue between the people who dea...

A poetic visit to the city of Athens, based on paintings, poems and philosophical texts....

A cinematic portrait of director Nikos Koundouros, this documentary explores his artistic journey through the voices of renowned Greek artists, tracing the experiences and influences that shaped his visionary work....

A film director, his relationships with women and the expression of his bitterly emotions about cinema and Greece...

A doctor from Paris travels to North Africa to investigate the murder of a friend and find a lost boy....

Jeanne Moreau encounters the late Marcello Mastroianni (using footage from Angelopoulos' 1986 film The Beekeeper) in a movie theater and professes her love for him....