"You cannot help but be influenced by a place and its culture when you grow up there, especially at a particular time, as I did, when the church was an important part of my cultural (not necessarily religious) life."
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Theo Angelopoulos
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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