In his childhood he used to climb to the lighthouse of the nowadays
ghost-town of Koprena, where he was raised, and daydream he was in a
ship, sailing for distant places. His family, though, forbade a
sailor's career. As things turned out, he became one of the two or
three greatest film makers of the so-called golden era of the Greek
cinema, the '60s. Three generations of Greeks laughed and cried with
his movies. Those films are still very successful when broadcast on
Greek TV. The sea is more than evident in his best known films. He had
the reputation of a hard man to work with but he used to say, "making
movies is a game, if we all respect its rules, we can enjoy the game,
when someone breaks the rules the game is no longer amusing for the
rest of the set". He spent many of the last years of his life by the
sea, next to a pine forest, writing novels mostly for children.
Ta delfinakia tou Amvrakikou(1995)
The Little Dolphins(1993)
To theatro tis Defteras(1970)
The Craziest Guy in Greece(1983)
Katatregmenoi tis moiras(1964)
Large Highways(1953)as Nikos Gerasimou
Katestrepsa mia nyhta ti zoi mou(1951)as Alkis Faridis
Storm at the Lighthouse(1950)as Andreas Marendis
Oi Germanoi xanarhontai...(1948)as Xenofon
Peninta-peninta(2005)
To kokkino domatio(2005)
In the Nick of Time(2005)
Eglimata(1998)
I kori tou iliou(1971)
Fota poreias(2000)as Self (2000)
Ant' aftou(1998)as Self (2000)
Nyhterinos episkeptis(1994)as Self (2000)