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In the spring of 1897, the Greeks of Athens watched the first cinematic ventures (short movies in "journal"). In 1906 Greek cinema was born when the Manakis brothers started recording in Macedonia, and the French filmmaker "Leons" produced the first "Newscast" from the midi-Olympic games of Athens (the unofficial Olympic games of 1906).
The renaissance which led to the modern Greek theatre took place in the Venetian Crete. Significal dramatists include Georgios Chortatzis , Vitsentzos Kornaros , and other Cretan writers. Erotokritos is undoubtedly the masterpiece of this early period of modern Greek literature, and represents one of its supreme achievements.
Ellinika Monoprakta – theatre performances produced for broadcast on television, featuring the works of some of the most well-known and important Greek writers. Shows feature performances by veteran and new stage actors. Fotosfaira – documentary series that gives the viewer a look at rural life in Greece. The series focuses on the people ...
When the Lumiere brothers held the first commercial cinema screening in Paris almost 130 years ago, few could have imagined what an all-consuming monster it would become. With multi-million dollar ...
Following the success of his 2020 breakout "Minari" — an intimate, semi-autobiographical drama about a South Korean immigrant family living in 1980s Arkansas that earned six Oscar nominations ...
The Family Reunion: 1959 TV movie, Canada Les Perses: 1961 TV movie, France Aeschylus: 1967 TV movie, Finland I Persiani: 1967 TV movie, Italy The Forgotten Pistolero: 1969 Italy Agamemnon: 1973 Belgium Orestea: 1975 Italy Atreides: 1979 TV movie, Greece Oresteia: 1979 TV mini-series, UK Prometheus Retrogressing: 1998 Le Rêve Plus Fort que la ...
Phaedra (Greek: Φαίδρα) is a 1962 American-Greek drama film directed by Jules Dassin as a vehicle for his partner (and future wife) Melina Mercouri, after her worldwide hit Never on Sunday. The film was the fourth collaboration between Dassin and Mercouri, who took the title role.
He soon starts the translation in modern Greek iambic verse of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and chooses one of Greece's greatest actors, Aimilios Veakis, whose memorable performance as King Lear at the Royal (National) Theater of Greece in 1938 has remained indelibly written in the history of 20th century Greek theater, to appear in the homonymous role.