ROBBERY IN ATHENS

Vangelis Serdaris (1935-2023) was born in Vlachokerasia, Arcadia, Greece. After his education in Tripoli and Tegea, he was accepted into the Panteion University of Athens in order to study political science. However, he abandoned his studies, choosing instead to pursue film studies at the Higher School of Cinema and Theatre in Athens (1966-1967). After completing his studies and until 1967, he worked as an assistant director in numerous productions. Simultaneously, he was involved in other aspects of film as well, such as production organization and casting, selection of filming sets and location, directorial execution, and editing. Aside from being a director and an independent film producer, Serdaris also worked in television after 1975 (Sta dihtya tou tromou, Elisavet Martinegou, The Secret of Aris Bonsalenti, To geloion tou pragmatos, among others). Many of his films received distinctions at international film festivals, as well as at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. He also directed a significant number of historical, folkloric, scientific, and ethnological documentaries for the Greek TV and the English ΤV channel, Channel 4.