Thanasis Valtinos
Writing
Biography
Thanasis Valtinos (December 16, 1932) is a Greek prose writer, short story writer, screenwriter and former president of the Academy of Athens. He also dealt with playwriting and translation - partner of the Art Theater of Karolos Koon -, as well as with the film script. The translations of Euripides' tragedy Troaditisses and Aeschylus' Oresteia were presented by the "Karolos Koun" Art Theater in Epidauria (1979-1980), directed by Karolos Koun. He has written the scripts for the films "While the train whistled", "Trojan horse" and in collaboration with others he also wrote the scripts for the films ", Days of '36, Trip to Kythera", The meteoric step of the stork, etc. From 1974 to 1975 he lived in West Berlin and in 1976 in the USA, invited respectively by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdiens [German Academic Exchange Service]t and the International Writing Program. He was general manager of E.R.T. (1989-1990) and president and managing director of the Hellenic Film Center 2005 - 2006 with Vassilis Mazomenos as vice president. He is a regular member of the Academy of Athens, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Akademia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea), the International Theater Institute, the Society of Greek Playwrights and the Writers' Society, of which he was president for five terms. Thanasis Valtinos was President of the Academy of Athens. He has been honored with the screenplay prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the film Journey to Kythera (1984) and with the state novel prize for his book Elements for the 60s (1990), with the international Cavafy prize (2001) and the of the Academy of Athens "Petros Haris" (2002). In 2002 he was awarded the golden cross of the Order of Honor of the Hellenic Republic.
Known For
Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.
Landscape in the Mist
An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things.
Voyage to Cythera
A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.
The Suspended Step of the Stork
Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress and convolutions of career and economic success shatter him, alienating him from everyone and everything he loves: even his children and his soul mate Maria. Alexis is jolted back to reality when the unbridled greed of the multinational conglomerate his company is involved in causes an unprecedented ecological catastrophe costing many human lives. The multinational's Golden Boy suddenly realizes that he is nothing more than a cog in the machine he had fought so passionately against in his youth. He is determined to rediscover himself, to reclaim his soul, to rebuild the dream with Maria - but he is completely trapped. He is caught in a web of intrigue that tightens like a vice driving him to an inevitably lethal conflict with the conglomerate.
The Flight of the Swan
An immigrant returns to his village after many years, only to find that no one is waiting for him. When his wife and her lover murder him, an investigator attempts to reconstruct the crime, while a film crew documents the event.
Reconstruction
Two years after the establishment of the junta of the colonels, a resistance fighter leaves for Sweden. After 14 years of exile, the return to Greece is painful. His girlfriend has been married, while his friends have completely changed.
The Song Of Return
The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.
Days of '36
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Birth City
A college student seeks to set things traight with his mother, that abandonned him as a child as she fled with his uncle to America.
The Wing of the Fly
The story of Ioannis Zachos, a young psychopath who commits a murder in Athens.
John the Violent
Documentary about the nightlife in Athens. The nightclubs, the musical acts, the striptease shows, but also some dramatized acts with well-known actors...
Nightwalks
Summer 1949: end of the civil war in Greece. The last band of guerrillas of the Democratic Army is forced to abandon Mount Taygetus and to head for the sea. Everything behind them has collapsed and they can count on help from no one. In this long, desperate and aimless march, the group will end up by being annihilated by the National Army and the armed villagers.
The Descent of the Nine
In a secluded location a body has been found, is Martha.
Ενώ Σφύριζε Το Τραίνο
With the youthful remembrance of the mysterious beauty he used to secretly admire from afar still etched in his mind, a young man will unexpectedly spot a dead ringer of her and attempt to appease his long-suppressed feelings.