Greece honours filmmaker Angelopoulos

Greece honours this week Theodoros Angelopoulos, greatest filmmakers, with a series of special screenings for his plays.

Athens: Greece honours this week Theodoros Angelopoulos, one of its greatest filmmakers, with a series of special screenings of his plays -- two years after his deathSyntagma Square in central Athens transformed into a large cinema screen for Angelopoulos` documentary "Athens, Return to the Acropolis". The event ends Jan 29, reports Xinhua.

Angelopoulos won awards in film festivals in Cannes, Berlin, Venice and across the world for his work over four decades. His films included "Eternity and a Day", "Alexander the Great", "Ulysses` Gaze" and "Landscape in the Mist". He died Jan 24, 2012 after being hit by a motorcycle while shooting his film, "The Other Sea in Athens", which was focused on the debt crisis in Greece.