Angelopoulos was quarantined over the weekend at the Athens International Airport, from which he was to fly to İzmir, the Anatolia news agency reported.The director of such award-winning cult films as “Ulysses’ Gaze” (1995) and “Eternity and a Day” (1998) was to take part in a cinema workshop exploring his body of work on Monday at İzmir’s Dokuz Eylül University. The workshop, a joint effort by Dokuz Eylül University and Greece’s University of the Aegean as part of the European Union’s Erasmus student exchange program, started on Thursday and was to wrap up on Nov. 11.
Angelopoulos was also going to receive an honorary doctorate degree at a ceremony on Monday from Dokuz Eylül University for “establishing profound links between the art of cinema and other branches of art and for his objective and humanist outlook on the history of the Aegean region.”
The program has been postponed to a later date.
