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Fotos Lambrinos

Fotos Lambrinos

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Biography

Fotos Lambrinos was a graduate of the Moscow Film Institute (1965-1970) in the workshop of Mikhail Romm. He worked as a director in radio and theater, as well as as a film critic in the newspapers Avgi and Demokratiki Allagi. He also directed many documentaries and the feature films: Aris Velouchiotis – the dilemma (1981), Doxombous (1987), Birthday Party or A Silent Balkan Story (1995), Captain Kemal, the Comrade (2007), The Great Utopia (2017). He extensively researched, in collaboration with Costas Gavras, Nikos Svoronos and Dimitris Despotidis, the international newsreel film archives in Europe and the USA, which helped in the subsequent production of the Panorama of the Century series (1982-1987) for ERT. He contributed to the establishment of the film archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and collaborated as a documentarian with the National Audiovisual Archive. He has taught "Relations between cinema and history" at the Universities of Crete, Thessaly and Panteion. He was responsible for ERT's program for international documentary co-productions (History Doc) and has published texts on Greek and Balkan cinema in foreign publications (Centre Georges Pompidou, 1995; La Biennale di Venezia, 2000) and domestic publications (History of Modern Hellenism, volumes 6-10, Greek Letters, Athens 1993). He has translated Chekhov, Camilleri and Tsvetaeva. Kastaniotis Publications publishes his books: My Power is the Love of the Lens – Cinematic Current Events as Evidence of History (1895-1940) (2005), White Shoshanas (2006), Is It a Junta? Will It Pass? – The film Current Affairs during the Dictatorship, 1967-1974 (2013) and Palamidiou 10 (2019), which gave us the occasion for the following discussion.

Known For

The Suspended Step of the Stork
6.8

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

1991
One Hundred Hours of May
9.0

A documentary on the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis, by a political group of the extreme right.

One Hundred Hours of May

1963
Living Dangerously
6.6

On the morning of the World Cup final, Karamanos, an employee of the Greek Telecommunications Organization (TOE), connects his commander's personal computer to a devilishly complex and explosive device. He threatens to blow up the floor and the satellite dishes above if he is not allowed to appear on the national network 10 minutes before the football match to denounce all the wrongs that plague the lives of Greek citizens and make them victims of a partisan and corrupt state.

Living Dangerously

1987
Doxobus
5.8

By the 14th century, the Byzantine Empire was, if not on the verge of actual collapse, at least seriously decadent and clearly on its last legs. The hungry wolves of Europe were preparing to dine on its corpse, and as a result the Byzantine army and its allies were constantly engaged in battles and skirmishes. In this story, a widow lives in the 14th-century Byzantine village of Doxobus with her son Xenos. She forms a relationship with a village elder, and when she gives birth to the elder’s son, her son from her previous marriage is sent to live in a monastery.

Doxobus

1987
Πανόραμα μιας επταετίας: Χούντα είναι. Θα περάσει;
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Πανόραμα μιας επταετίας: Χούντα είναι. Θα περάσει;

2011
Captain Kemal, A Comrade
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A Turkish man decides in 1947 to illegally visit the Greek north-eastern mountains at Thrace in order to fight in the Greek Civil War on the side of the Greek Guerrillas (Communists). Today, at the age of 92, he makes a journey back to Greece where he fought to visit again the battle fields.

Captain Kemal, A Comrade

2009
Aris Velouchiotis - The Dilemma
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Historical-political documentary about the life and activity of a mythical figure of EAM Movement and the National Resistance, that the captain of ELAS Ari Velouhioti.

Aris Velouchiotis - The Dilemma

1981
Birthday Celebration, or a Silent Balkan Story
10.0

The film is dedicated to the centennial of cinema and, through a pastiche of excerpts from Balkan silent films, pays tribute to a cinema that has been almost completely forgotten. Old photographs and a modern- day train trip through the Balkans highlight the coincidences, the similarities, and the affinities that link Balkan filmmakers. A film about all the things that unite the neighbouring countries of the peninsula, which, perhaps, are many more than the things that divide them.

Birthday Celebration, or a Silent Balkan Story

1995
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4.6

Sergei Paradjanov, the great Soviet filmmaker of Armenian origin who was born and grew up in Tbilisi, Georgia, studied film in Moscow and worked for many years in Ukraine, talks on camera to Fotos Lamprinos about his life, his films, and events in the USSR under Gorbachev’s Perestroika, a few short months before he died and while the state of his health was already deteriorating. The film includes rare footage of the massacre of Georgian civilians by the Soviet Army in April 1989 and unpublished material from the Ukrainian prison in which Paradjanov served his sentence.

Sergei Parajanov, The Exile

2009
Visit Greece
N/A

An end of study film for this film director who graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, it was produced from audiovisual archives found in Russia. Inspired by the film "Triumph over Violence", produced in 1965 by Mikhail Romm, a study director and film director, "Visit Greece" tells the story of the first tourists – usually armed and not invited – to visit Greek territory at various periods of its history.

Visit Greece

1970
The Great Utopia
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1917-1933. The Bolshevik Revolution – Holodomor. The greatest Utopia mankind has ever known. An Utopia that shocked the world and was buried in mass graves along with millions of victims. The film narrates the global influence of the Revolution, the establishment of dozens of Communist Parties, the hopes created in millions of people around the world and this so full of promise yet tragic course of “The Great Utopia.” The film is a tribute to the centenary of the October Revolution (1917-2017)

The Great Utopia

2017