Theo Angelopoulos (born in 1936), Greek director, indisputably one of the generation of the cinema masters. His style refers to the great absentees – Fellini or Tarkowski – and yet it is recognisable and unique. The international critics’ favourite and collector of festival awards has consistently for many years realised his own vision of cinema – solemn, symbolic and full of cultural quotations. Angelopoulos makes a bitter account of the fate of his own country and spiritual condition of his countrymen and all the time he remains deeply rooted in the European cultural tradition, making the stories he tells universal. His feature debut – Reconstruction / Anaparastassi of 1970 was regarded as a milestone of Greek cinema. His next works: The Travelling Players / O thiassos (1975) or the trilogy of silence made in the 1980s (Voyage to Cythera / Taxidi sta Kithira, 1983, The Beekeeper / O melissokomos, 1986, Landscape in the Mist / Topio stin omichli, 1988) enforced his position not only in the Greek cinema, but in the European one as well. The film screened at the festival ERA NEW HORIZONS in 2005, Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow / Trylogia I: To Livadi pou dakryzei (2003) is the first part of the planned trilogy, showing the whole 20^th century in images.

The Wrocław retrospective of the Greek master will be accompanied by several events, including a concert of music by Eleni Karaindrou (26.07, Wrocław Opera), composed for the films of Theo Angelopoulos; and an exhibition of work by the photographer Dimitris Sofikitis, documenting the film Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (Trilogia I:To Livadi pou dakryzei, 2004).

Misty Landscapes. Theo Angelopoulos’s Cinema

Theo Angelopoulos – poetry of an image