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name: "Eleni Karaindrou"
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imdb_id: "nm0438774"
tmdb_id: 73647
wikidata_id: "Q270340"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "25 November 1941"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T01:50:13.388610+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Eleni Karaindrou

## Identity

Eleni Karaindrou

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/eleni-karaindrou
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** eleni-karaindrou
- **IMDb ID:** nm0438774
- **TMDB ID:** 73647
- **Wikidata ID:** Q270340
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleni_Karaindrou, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270340, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438774/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73647

Composer. Born 25 November 1941 in Teichio - Phocis - Greece.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 25 November 1941, Teichio - Phocis - Greece
- **Also known as:** Ελένη Καραΐνδρου, Eléni Karaïndrou
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleni_Karaindrou, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270340, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438774/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73647

## Biography

Eleni Karaindrou is a Greek composer born on 25 November 1941 in the village of Teichio in Phocis, central Greece. She studied piano and music theory at the Hellenikon Odeion in Athens and later ethnomusicology and orchestration in Paris between 1969 and 1974.

She is best known for her scores for the films of Theo Angelopoulos, beginning with *Voyage to Cythera* (1984) and including *The Beekeeper* (1986), *Landscape in the Mist* (1988), *The Suspended Step of the Stork* (1991), *Ulysses' Gaze* (1995), *Eternity and a Day* (1998), *The Weeping Meadow* (2004) and *The Dust of Time* (2008). She has also composed for directors including Margarethe von Trotta, Jules Dassin and Chris Marker, as well as for theatre and television.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, allmusic.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Landscape in the Mist* (1988), Fi1m 83, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/landscape-in-the-mist.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Nihito Patalchhaya* (2025), Music
- *Bomb: A Love Story* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Enclave* (2015), Music
- *Sleepless in New York* (2014), Music
- *Those Who Go Those Who Stay* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Sei Venezia* (2012), Music
- *Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher* (2009), Music
- *The Dust of Time* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *To Each His Own Cinema* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Το 10* (2007), series, Music
- *The Weeping Meadow* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *Synaulia Eleni Karaindrou* (2003), Actor
- *War Photographer* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *The End of an Eternity* (2000), Music
- *Eternity and a Day* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Ulysses' Gaze* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *The Suspended Step of the Stork* (1991), Music
- *The African Woman* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *The signs of the night* (1990), Music
- *Landscape in the Mist* (1988), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/landscape-in-the-mist.md)
- *Modest Gods* (1987), Thanks
- *The Beekeeper* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *Happy Homecoming, Comrades* (1986), Music
- *On Course* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *Voyage to Cythera* (1984), Music
- *The Price of Love* (1984), Music
- *Roza* (1982), Music
- *Καλή σου Νύχτα Κυρ-Αλέξανδρε* (1981), Music
- *Loxandra* (1980), series, Music
- *Wandering* (1979), Music
- *Memories of a Sunday* (1975), Music
- *The Way of the Wind*, Original Music Composer
- *Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film*, Actor

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- World Soundtrack Award – Lifetime Achievement 2021: World Soundtrack Award – Lifetime Achievement (won)
- European Film Award for Best Composer 2004: European Film Award for Best Composer (nominated), for *Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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