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Written by Nikos Tsagkarakis
Theodoros Aggelopoulos is perhaps the most “anti-conformist” film director in the
Greek film industry. His origins are from the village Gavalochori of Chania but he was
born in Athens in April 1935. He studied law in the University of Athens and in Paris and
attended cinema classes in Sorbonne and in IDHEC in Paris. From 1964 to 1967, he was
employed as a film critic in Athens, while at the same time he started making his first
films. In 1965 he directed the film “Forminx story”, which was never completed,
followed by his first short film “Broadcast” in 1968. In 1970 he made his first full-length
feature film “Reconstruction”, a film that seemingly narrates the chronicle of a crime
but in essence illustrates the unbearable melancholy of the twilight of rural Greece, the
abandonment of villages brought during the migration of populations abroad during this
period. Talking about his films, Aggelopoulos once said: “‘Reconstruction’ is set in
Epirus and bears all the motifs of my films: the rain, the mist, the border and the
transition; it is a film that greatly marked my life. I wouldn’t say it is my favorite,
however, I would say it is a point of reference in my career, because it is the first gaze”.
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