Narrator of everlasting endless journeys: Theo Angelepolos
HANDAN TUFAN
IZMIR ( DİHA) - Among the history of cinema's most important directors, one is of course Theo Angelepolos with a long background sequences. Angelepolos took his place inside memories with films telling the plan experienced the passage of time in rainy, dark, gloomy scenes, freedom, borders, internal reckoning. His films not only carry a matter of integrity in terms of style but also each of the films is the beginning of another. As a never-ending path which goes to eternity.
Theo Angelopoulos, one of the most important in the history of cinema masters, passed away on January 24, 2012. His life is so far contrary as his cinema, Angelopoulos was born in 1935 in Athens, Greece. Theo Angelopoulos said his childhood with the Second World War, the political unrest experienced during this period, the dictatorship before the war began and after the war, ending with the civil war in a country that has grown continuously shaken. Current obtain the required period of detention for no reason at the moment, which we thought was exiled and died, his father suddenly emerged was the subject of many films. Angelopoulos grown in a merchant family, in order to fulfill the expectations of the family he begin to see the Athens University Law School, but four years later, close to graduating from the Faculty of Law to do compulsory military service left. Upon completion of his military service at the Sorbonne, literature, cinema and went to Paris to study anthropology. Paris High Cinema Institute also (Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques – IDHEC) a year after reading the ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch'l work with the Musee de l' Homme cinemas attended courses to earn money and at night the French Cinematheque in show made. General turbulent era in Western Europe in the early 60s as a young idealist with and adopts the opinion of the radical left which will be established in future work in this direction in the hope of a new world began.
Censorship and resistance in art
When he returned to Greece, where the situation is more complicated sees and put into practice the principles advocated in the country. A time Democratic Change leftist magazine film critic wrote. Would then military coup in Greece and this magazine is closed by the regime and a strict censorship on the media all apply. Childhood in the world and Greece to the important historical - political events in the presence of the director's teenage years in the country of conflict and dictatorship , films in the context of determining factors and this situation Angelopoulos their own country, making films of reality.
As regards Angelepolos cinema
By Angelopoulos, theater consists of three separate periods. The first term corresponds to the turbulent era in Western Europe general ideological, historical and political films of the era. This period is generally the director's "Political Theater" period is called. Seen as a journey into the recent history of Greece "Greek History Trilogy" in 1972, "36 Days" (Meres Tou'36), 1975, "Guest Players" (O Thiassos) and 1977's "The Hunters" (I Kynight). His films include the initial period. At the same time these films, "movies to put policy not to make political theater". Brecht wanting Angelopoulos is the closest structure. In a sense, "Greece's travails taken from 1939 until 1952 is a table of the delusional."
Changing times caused Angelepolos's change
In 1983, "Kitara Journey" (Taxidi Sta Kythira ) in the second period, starting with film, history and politics falls into the background a little more individual histories and issues, focuses on the characters. "In a way closer to the date films depicting pulls and political questioning a more abstract level moves. This is why once believed the date that changed now that is. Thus, the second trilogy, the "Silence Trilogy" of the first film Kitara Journey performs with consent. This movie then the second term in 1986 film "Beekeeper" (O Melissokomos) and in 1988 "Foggy Landscape" (Topio Stun Omichl) film continues with. This trilogy movies are "Date of Silence, Love the Silence and God's Silence" and matches. Fact, this a kind of era are the building blocks of the third period.
He represents the generation of 68
"The collapse of socialism" all over the world after the date and experienced no loss of faith in politics, social transformation brought about by the existence in the films of Angelopoulos with individuality and personal journeys towards fore questioning. However, the movie begins in the third period. In this case also, as an active player in the history of politics from direct renunciation is synchronized with the masses. During this period, more existential, human destiny and life is more focused period. "The collapse of socialism", borders, deportations, the situation in the Balkans, migration, loss centers seeking, the concept of fatherhood, a journey into the inner world of people, such as themes often seen in movies. This inner journey the characters perform, Angelopoulos interested in politics like him active in the 1970s and later who believes that the political ideals that devastated represents 68 generations.
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