He exposed law inside Athens but after war machine service he attend Paris to attend the Sorbonne. He before long dropped bent survey film at a IDHEC before returning to Greece. Back personal he worked as a journalist & film critic until the coup.

He mass produced his 1st short film in 1968 and went on in the 1970s to make yearn films caring by owning modern Greece - Meres Tou 36, O Thiassos & We Kynighoi. He quickly established the characteristic style, marked by slow, episodic & ambiguous structure & hanker, "sequence shot" will require. He get into less political works fallowing a prevent of the authoritarianism, gaining Italian funding.

His distinct ocular style is characterized by super slow, hanker, meticulous requires. The Travelling Players for example, consists of around Eighty shots within astir quaternion hours of film.

His collaborators include a cinematographer Giorgos Arvanitis, and a composer Eleni Karaindrou. Karaindrou's soundtracks come available from either ECM records.

A film critic David Thomson counted Angelopoulos as one of the world's greatest residing directors around his 1994 Biographical Dictionary of Film.

Awards

O Megalexandros won a Golden Lion at the 1980 Venice Film Festival Topio stin Omichli (Landscape In The Mist) shared a Silver Lion at Venice around 1988. To Vlemma tou Odyssea (''Ulysses's Regard'') won a Grand Jury Prize at Cannes in 1995. Frustrated at non winning a Palme d'Or that year, he told his audience "If this is what you have to give me, I have nothing to say" before storming off the stage. Mia aiwniothta kai mia mera (Eternity & the Day) won a Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1998. Trilogia - To livadi pou dakryzei (Trilogy - A Weeping Meadow) won a European Film Academy Critics Award 2004 - Prix FIPRESCI within 2004.

Filmography
Broadcast (I Ekpombi) (1968) Reconstruction (Anaparastasis) (1970) Days of 36 (Meres tou 36) (1972) The Travelling Players (O Thiassos) (1975) The Huntsmen (I Kinighi) (1977) Alexander the Great (O Megalexandros) (1980) Athens (Athina, epistrofi stin Akropoli) (1983) Voyage to Cythera (Taxidi stin Kythera) (1984) The Beekeeper (O Melissokomos) (1986) Landscape in the Mist (Topio stin Omichli) (1988) The Suspended Step of the Stork (To Meteoro Vima tou Pelargou) (1991) ''Ulysses's Gaze (To Vlemma tou Odyssea) (1995) Eternity and a Day (Mia aiwniothta kai mia mera) (1998) Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (Trilogia I: To Livadi pou dakryzei) (2004) Trilogy: The Third Wing (Projected English title) Trilogy: The Eternal Return'' (Projected English title)