Takis Kanellopoulos
Takis Kanellopoulos (October 26, 1933 - September 21, 1990) was a Greek director and screenwriter. He was born on October 26, 1933 in Thessaloniki and died on September 21, 1990 from a myocardial infarction. One of the first Greek directors who made films in Thessaloniki, which he never left. He was honored at the 7th Thessaloniki Film Festival, in 1966, on the occasion of the film "Excursion", for his contribution to raising the quality level of the Festival. In the corresponding event of 1968 and on the occasion of the film "Parenthesis" he was awarded by the Hellenic Film Critics Association for his direction, while the film itself was recognized as the Best Artistic Film of the year together with "Girls in the Sun" by Vassilis Georgiadis. During the 1970s, the director's films were negatively received by the Thessaloniki festival audience and ignored by the critics of the time. From then until the next decade, Kanellopoulos dabbled in literature, writing poems and short stories. The death of Takis Kanellopoulos coincided with the long-awaited approval of financing for a film of his that would never be made.
Sky (1962)
During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad of war-battered soldiers receives orders from the headquarters in Athens to fall back, leaving behind the Albanian Front. As the men retreat through the snow-covered ... (more)
During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad of war-battered soldiers receives orders from the headquarters in Athens to fall back, leaving behind the Albanian Front. As the men retreat through the snow-covered ... (more)
Macedonian Wedding (1960)
A Greek documentary by Takis Kanellopoulos about wedding traditions in western Greece and Macedonia. It was filmed in the village of Velvendo. (more)
A Greek documentary by Takis Kanellopoulos about wedding traditions in western Greece and Macedonia. It was filmed in the village of Velvendo. (more)
Sonia (1980)
The brief love story that Sonia lived in the summer with her teacher, an older man and married in the 60's. For the autumn, Tonio travels with his family abroad, leaving Sonia with his most intimate memories. Sonia has lived in Florence, Paris and has acquired the ... (more)
The brief love story that Sonia lived in the summer with her teacher, an older man and married in the 60's. For the autumn, Tonio travels with his family abroad, leaving Sonia with his most intimate memories. Sonia has lived in Florence, Paris and has acquired the ... (more)
Excursion (1966)
1941 and the war culminates. The wife of a lieutenant and a sergeant fall madly in love. Times and circumstances -military service, marriage, friendship between the two men- forbid this love, but do not negate it. When the lieutenant is injured and taken to ... (more)
1941 and the war culminates. The wife of a lieutenant and a sergeant fall madly in love. Times and circumstances -military service, marriage, friendship between the two men- forbid this love, but do not negate it. When the lieutenant is injured and taken to ... (more)
Interlude (1968)
An affair–parenthesis in the dull life of two people (Angelos Antonopoulos and Alexandra Ladikou), who meet by chance on a railway trip and spend a few hours together while the train is stuck in a station. Based on the same Noël Coward play that David Lean used ... (more)
An affair–parenthesis in the dull life of two people (Angelos Antonopoulos and Alexandra Ladikou), who meet by chance on a railway trip and spend a few hours together while the train is stuck in a station. Based on the same Noël Coward play that David Lean used ... (more)
Memories of a Sunday (1975)
This film narrates six different stories in a very lyrical way: a coachman wanders around town; two elderly people go to the park every Sunday; a man leaves flowers in various neighbourhoods in memory of a friend who was killed during the war; a boy narrates how ... (more)
This film narrates six different stories in a very lyrical way: a coachman wanders around town; two elderly people go to the park every Sunday; a man leaves flowers in various neighbourhoods in memory of a friend who was killed during the war; a boy narrates how ... (more)
Romantic Note (1978)
The story of four fellow students who fall in love with the same girl (Adriana/Maria Perdiki), who has shook up their lives with her unexpected appearance as well as her enigmatic presence, and who will give them up in the same dramatic way, as if she never existed ... (more)
The story of four fellow students who fall in love with the same girl (Adriana/Maria Perdiki), who has shook up their lives with her unexpected appearance as well as her enigmatic presence, and who will give them up in the same dramatic way, as if she never existed ... (more)