Nikos Koundouros

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Nikos Koundouros (Greek: Νίκος Κούνδουρος), is a Greek film director, born in Agios Nikolaos, Crete in 1926. He studied painting and sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and was later exiled because of his political beliefs to the Makronissos island. At the age of 28 he decided to follow a career in cinematography, and started his career as a director of the film Magiki Polis (1954), where he combined his neorealism influences with his own artistic viewpoint. After the release of his complex and innovative film O Drakos, he found acceptance as a prominent artist in Greece and Europe, and has acquired important awards in various international and Greek film festivals.

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[edit] Filmography

[edit] Cinema

  • Magiki Polis, English: Enchanted City (1954)
  • O Drakos, English: Draco (1956)
  • Oi Paranomoi, English: The outlaws (1958)
  • To Potami, English: The river (1960)
  • Mikres Aphrodites: English: Young Aphrodites, English Title: Young Aphrodites (1963)
  • To Prosopo tis Medousas, English: The face of Medousa, English Title: Vortex (1967)
  • To tragoudi tis fotias, English: The song of fire (1975)
  • 1922 (1978)
  • Bordello, English: Brothel (1984)
  • Byron, balanta gia enan daimonismeno, English: Byron, Ballad for a possessed (1992)
  • Oi fwtografoi, English: The photographers (1998)

[edit] TV Documentaries

  • Ifigeneia en Tavrois (1991)
  • Antigoni (1994)
  • Ellinisti Kypros

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