Nikos Koundouros

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-12-15 (91 years old)

Deathday

2017-02-22

Place of Birth

Athens, Greece

Nikos Koundouros

Biography

Nikos Koundouros (Greek: Νίκος Κούνδουρος; 15 December 1926 – 22 February 2017) was a Greek film director. Koundouros was born in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, in 1926. He studied painting and sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts. During the war he was a member of the left-wing resistance movement EAM-ELAS, and because of this was subsequently exiled to the Makronissos prison island. At the age of 28 he decided to follow a career in cinematography. He started his career as a director of the film Magiki Polis (1954), where he combined his neorealism influences with his own artistic viewpoint. He cast Thanasis Veggos, who he had met at Makroni...

Acting

Production

1956

1963

Young Aphrodites

as Director

1955

The Magic City

as Director

1967

Vortex

as Director

1958

The Outlaws

as Director

1985

Bordello

as Director

1960

The River

as Director

1978

1922

as Director

2016

2012

2012

1963

Young Aphrodites

as Producer

1960

The River

as Writer

1985

Bordello

as Writer

1956

1955

The Magic City

as Producer

1978

1922

as Screenplay

1998

1998

1998

The Photographers

as Art Direction

1998

1958

The Outlaws

as Writer

1967

Vortex

as Writer

1967

Vortex

as Producer

1975

Songs of Fire

as Director

1985

Bordello

as Producer

1975

Songs of Fire

as Producer

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