Film Director Theodoros Angelopoulos Killed by a Damn Dumb Greek Police !!

Film Director Theodoros Angelopoulos Killed by a Damn Dumb Greek Police !!
Theodoros Angelopoulos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος) (27 April 1935 -- 24 January 2012), popularly known as Theo Angelopoulos, was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.

Angelopoulos, born in Athens on 27 April 1936, studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but after his military service went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne. He soon dropped out to study film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) before returning to Greece. There, he worked as a journalist and film critic. Angelopoulos began making films after the 1967 coup that began the Greek military dictatorship known as the Regime of the Colonels. He made his first short film in 1968 and in the 1970s he began making a series of political feature films about modern Greece: Days of '36 (Meres Tou 36, 1972), The Travelling Players (O Thiassos, 1975) and The Hunters (I Kynighoi, 1977). In 1978, he was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

He quickly established a characteristic style, marked by slow, episodic and ambiguous narrative structures as well as long takes (The Travelling Players, for example, consists of only 80 shots in about four hours of film). These takes often include meticulously choreographed and complicated scenes involving many actors. His regular collaborators include the cinematographer Giorgos Arvanitis, the screenwriter Tonino Guerra and the composer Eleni Karaindrou. Angelopoulos was considered by British film critics Derek Malcolm[2] and David Thomson[3] as one of the world's greatest directors.

Theodoros Angelopoulos was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium in 1995, by Paris X University in Nanterre, France, by the University of Essex, UK in July 2001[4], by the University of Western Macedonia, Greece in December 2008[5], and by the University of the Aegean, Greece in December 2009.[6],
Death

Angelopoulos died late on Tuesday, 24 January 2012, several hours after being involved in an accident while shooting his latest film in Athens. The respected filmmaker had been with his crew in the area of Drapetsona, near Piraeus when he was hit by a motorcycle, on Tuesday evening. The accident occurred when Angelopoulos, 76, attempted to cross a busy road. He was taken to the hospital, where he was treated in an intensive care unit but succumbed to his serious injuries several hours later

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[Ilkamy]

Θα μας λείψετε Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος. Σας ευχαριστούμε για όλα!

Αναπαύσου εν ειρήνη. Καλό ταξίδι!

We will miss you Theo Angelopoulos. Your films are unforgettable impressions!

Rest in peace. Have a good trip! - Bon Voyage!

Wir werden Dich vermissen Theo Angelopoulos. Deine Filme sind unvergessliche Eindrücke!

Ruhe in Frieden. Gute Reise!

[poppymu]

Αχ..σαν να το'ξερε..δεν μπορώ να δω αυτή τη σκηνή με τους μοτοσυκλετιστές στη 'Σκόνη του Χρόνου' χωρίς ν' ανατριχιάσω..

[sparti8]

he was a hero of the common man and I learned a lot about life was like in the era that my folks grew up in many thanks I finally got know your work it was a shame I knew of your for such a short time "krimas pou sai xasa mai" Peace to your family"