Movies: Theo Angelopoulos

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 filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the...

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual...

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek ...

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 near Thessaloniki. Led by the charismatic Spyros, they establish a new settlement in the delta of a riv...

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....

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

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

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds,...

Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens meet his demand for amnesty for his band of freedom fighters....

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 Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that li...

The team of journalists of a radio show asks women on the street for their definition of the ideal man in order to conduct a search for someone to fill the bill, a specimen who has all these characteristics. The lucky guy will spend a few hours in th...

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 Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and c...

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

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

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

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

A documentary about cinema censorship during the dictatorship in Greece (1967- 1974), based on never-before-seen state archives. The film includes clips of films which were either censored or banned, newsreels of that era, interviews with famous dire...

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