Theo Angelopoulos
Theo Angelopoulos (1935–2012) was a Greek director and screenwriter widely considered the most important figure in modern Greek cinema. Trained in Paris at IDHEC and at the Sorbonne, he developed a contemplative, ceremonial style built on extreme long takes, sweeping crane and tracking shots, and journeys across the borders of the southern Balkans. His features grappled with twentieth-century Greek history — civil war, dictatorship, displacement — and with the broader twentieth-century European condition. His acclaimed films include Days of '36, The Travelling Players, Voyage to Cythera, Landscape in the Mist, Ulysses' Gaze, and Eternity and a Day.