PRESS RELEASE - FILM SCREENINGS IN GREECE

Theo Angelopoulos loved his country deeply and honored it by transporting it all over the world.
Yet his most fundamental contribution to his country was the way that, through his work, he challenged Greece to see Greece. The way in which, through the recurring themes of his films and his directorial point of view, he challenged Greece to come to terms with its identity and to reflect on it.

With its poetry and mythology as his material, the burden of its ancient glory, the wounds of its contemporary history, the political situations which left their indelible mark on it and with a deeply penetrating and prophetic vision of the past, the present and the future of Greece as his guide, Angelopoulos gave his soul and being to the country that bore him, through an oeuvre that has proved timeless and is proving always timely.

The 24th of January 2013 marks one year since Theo Angelopoulos departed.

The screenings of his films in the venue for which they were made - the movie theater screen -
in the format in which they were made and meant to be shown on this screen - 35mm prints - is the only tribute befitting the man who honored his art by devoting his entire life to it.

Theo Angelopoulos was very fond of an excerpt from Plato's "Alcibiades": "And thus the soul too, if it wishes to know itself, will have to look into the soul."

In this way his entire work was an attempt to know Greece by looking into its soul.

From the 24th to the 30th January, years after their first or second runs in movie theaters, the 35mm prints of the films of Theo Angelopoulos will once again meet audiences both old and new. All the prints screened will have English subtitles.