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Theodoros Angelopoulos

Director

Born - 17 April 1935, Athens, Greece
Died - 24 January 2012

Greek director known for leisurely-paced, beautifully photographed, atmospheric pieces which appealed to both the senses and the emotions. Among his better-known films were The Travelling Players (1975), The Hunters (1977), Taxidi sta Kythira (1984, the first of his 'Trilogy of Silence'), Landscape in the Mist (1988), Lumiere and Company (1995) and The Dust of Time (2008), his last completed feature. He was working on a new film at the time of his death, which resulted from head injuries, sustained after being hit by a motor-cyclist while crossing the road.