Born in Athens, Greece in 1936. Back in Athens, he worked as a film critic. In Brazil, he became known with "Voyage to Cythera" (1984), presented at the 8th Mostra. His most well-known films are "Landscape in the Mist" (1988, 15th Mostra), "The Suspended Step of the Stork" (1991, 15th Mostra), "Ulysses’ Gaze" (1995, 19th Mostra) and "Eternity and a Day" (1998, 22nd Mostra), winner of the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1996, the 20th Mostra made a retrospective including his first films. He also directed "The Weeping Meadow" (2004) and "The Dust of Time" (2009), presented at the 33rd Mostra, where in addition to a new retrospective of his work, he was awarded the Humanity Prize. Theo Angelopoulos died in 2012 at the age of 76.