I draw techniques from everything I've seen [...] I continu… - Thodoros Angelopoulos

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I draw techniques from everything I've seen [...] I continue to love [...] very much the films of Murnau, Mizoguchi, Antonioni. More recently: Tarkovsky's Stalker, Godard's Every Man for Himself and of course Ordet. [...] But the only specific influences I acknowledge are Orson Welles, for his use of plan-sequence and deep focus, and Mizoguchi, for his use of time and off-camera space.

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Theodoros (Theo) Angelopoulos (Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος); (27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 onwards and was one of the world's most influential and widely respected filmmakers.

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Birth Name: Theodoros Angelopoulos

Native Name: Θόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος

Alternative Names: Theodoros Aggelopoulos

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