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Dimitris Ioannopoulos was one of the founding spirits of Greek cinema. He studied Law in Athens followed by Cinematography in Berlin. On returning to Greece, he worked as a journalist, a playwright and a theatre director. In 1938-1945 he served as director of the Theatre Section of the National Council for Radio (NCR), and from 1948-1960 he was the NCR correspondent to the UN. He was also Chairman of the Greek Dramatists’ Association. During this period, he was also working on the embryonic Greek cinema, writing the screenplay for and directing the first Finos Film movie The Voice of the Heart, the first successful attempt at a talkie in Greece, exhibiting basic professionalism. Waterlily Villa (1945) and Acacia Avenue (1954) are two further Finos Film productions both written and directed by Ioannopoulos. He directed another five films, writing the screenplays for four of them.