Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos dies in accident

ATHENS, Greece — Police and hospital officials in Athens say Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos has been killed in road accident.

They say the 76-year-old director suffered serious head injuries and died at a hospital near Athens on Tuesday after being hit by a motorcycle while walking across a road.

Other details of the incident were not immediately available.

Angelopoulos won numerous awards for his movies, most at European film festivals, during his career that spanned more than 40 years.

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Director(20 titles)

2011 Mundo Invisível (segment «Céu Inferior»)

2008 The Dust of Time

2007 To Each His Own Cinema (segment «Trois Minutes» / as Théo Angelopoulos)

2004 Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow

1998 Eternity and a Day

1995 Lumière and Company (documentary) (as Theo Angelopoulos)

1995 To vlemma tou Odyssea

1991 To meteoro vima tou pelargou (as Thodoros Angelopoulos)

1988 Landscape in the Mist

1986 O melissokomos (as Thodoros Angelopoulos)

1984 Voyage to Cythera

1983 Athens, Return to the Acropolis (TV movie)

1981 Oi reporters (TV series documentary) – Chorio ena, katikos enas(1981)

1980 O Megalexandros

1977 The Hunters (as Thodoros Angelopoulos)

1975 The Travelling Players

1972 Days of 36 (as Thodoros Angelopoulos)

1970 Reconstruction

1968 Broadcast (short)

1965 Forminx Story (uncredited)

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