MANOS ZACHARIAS RETROSPECTIVE
The 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival will hold a Retrospective on the work of Greek director Manos Zacharias in his presence. Zacharias was born in Athens and studied at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques (IDHEC) in Paris. In 1956 he attended postgraduate courses in Film Direction in Moscow with teachers such as Alexander Dovzhenko and from 1959 to 1979 he worked at the then-illustrious Mosfilm Studios, where he made 3 shorts and 7 feature films. In the late seventies, when Zacharias returned to Greece, he had already made nine films in the Soviet Union and had succeeded as the Artistic Director of Mosfilm. His oeuvre is distinguished by its politically charged denunciation of any kind of oppression, dictatorship and war, as well as nostalgia for the country he left behind for so long. After the 1980s, Zacharias has played a significant administrative and executive role in the Greek film industry through various positions. He acted as the President of the Greek Film Center in the late 1980s and was until recently the ERT National TV Advisor on matters of film policy.
Along with the 10 films of the Retrospective, a documentary about the director, The Story Of My Years – Manos Zaharias by Stelios Haralambopoulos (2005), will be screened during the 49th TIFF.
THE FILMS OF THE RETROSPECTIVE
The Truth About the Children of Greece, 1948
The Morning Flight, 1959
The Sponge Divers, 1960
The Night Passenger, 1962
The End And The Beginning, 1963
I Am A Soldier, Mother, 1966
A Member of Punitive Troop, 1968
The Town Of The First Love, 1970
At The Corner Of Arbat And Bubulinas Street, 1972
Under The Name Of Lukac, 1977
