Theo Angelopoulos belongs to a rigorously serious tradition of filmmaking, committed to thinking about life and the world through celluloid. His considerable achievement in the last thirty years has made him not only the most important Greek filmmaker to dare, bur one of the truly creative and original artists of his rime. He has created an authentic epic cinema akin to Brecht's theatre where aesthetic emotion is counterbalanced by a reflexive approach that questions the surfaces of reality. Few directors have blended so satisfyingly the contents of his films with a search for new forms of expression.