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Yannis Smaragdis is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Script Grec born on 25 april 1946 at Crete (Grece)
Yannis Smaragdis (Greek: Γιάννης Σμαραγδής) is a Greek film director.
He was born in Crete in 1946 and studied film in Greece and Paris, France. He appeared in 1972 with his short film Two Three Things... which received the first prize in the Athens Festival as well as a Special Mention in the Montreal Film Festival. Yannis Smaragdis has taught Mass Media courses at the Panteion University of Athens, as well as film direction and screenwriting at film schools in Greece. He has published 2 books: Poetic Geography (1995) and Cavafy (1997) - a literary form of the script of the film Cavafy. Yannis Smaragdis is an honorary member of the Directors Guild of America.
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He was born in Crete in 1946 and studied film in Greece and Paris, France. He appeared in 1972 with his short film Two Three Things... which received the first prize in the Athens Festival as well as a Special Mention in the Montreal Film Festival. Yannis Smaragdis has taught Mass Media courses at the Panteion University of Athens, as well as film direction and screenwriting at film schools in Greece. He has published 2 books: Poetic Geography (1995) and Cavafy (1997) - a literary form of the script of the film Cavafy. Yannis Smaragdis is an honorary member of the Directors Guild of America.
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God Loves Caviar (2012)
, 1h41Directed by Yannis Smaragdis
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Actors Sebastien Koch, John Cleese, Christoforos Papakaliatis, Catherine Deneuve, Lakis Lazopoulos
Rating58%
The film is based upon the true story of Ioannis Varvakis, a Greek caviar merchant and eventual benefactor from Psara who was formerly a pirate. He was born in Psara, and from an early age he learned to navigate the seas, an occupation revered and steeped in tradition on the island where he grew up. At the age of 17 he built his own ship, which he would later offer to the Russians during the Orlov Revolt. Ultimately, his ship was destroyed, and he turned to Saint Petersburg to ask for an audience with Catherine the Great. He was given compensation for the loss of his ship and granted authorization to fish freely in the Caspian Sea. Lending to his superb navigational skills and excellent seamanship abilities, he dominated the Caspian Sea and soon became substantially wealthy. When he initially discovered the superior caviar of the Beluga Sturgeon, he quickly discerned that there could be an incredible market trading for this product. From the caviar trade he eventually became a millionaire and later donated part of his fortune for important works that improved the life of Russians and Greeks on the Black Sea coasts. In his later years, he became a member of the Filiki Eteria, which would contribute to the overthrow of the Ottoman rule of Greece. He passed away in 1825 in Zante, during the Greek War of Independence. After his death, his entire estate went to the Ioannis Varvakis Foundation which would offer up important grants throughout Greece. The script follows the entire life of Varvakis, but the film's narration begins with his final moments in Zante.
El Greco (2007)
, 1h59Directed by Yannis Smaragdis
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Seafaring films, Peinture, Transport films, Documentary films about the visual arts
Actors Laia Marull, Lakis Lazopoulos, Sotiris Moustakas, Theo Alexander
Rating64%
The film tells the story of Domenicos Theotokopoulos, better known as El Greco, a great Greek artist of the 16th century with an uncompromising character, who sets off from his homeland Crete and goes to Venice and finally Toledo, in search of freedom and love. There he is confronted by his greatest adversary, the Spanish Inquisition, but his creative consciousness and power make him stand out and overcome barbarity and ignorance.
The Song Of Return (1983)
, 1h35Directed by Yannis Smaragdis
Genres Drama
Actors Stathis Giallelis, Katia Dandoulaki, Athinodoros Prousalis, Sperantza Vrana
Rating75%
What a Mess (1982)
, 2hDirected by Yannis Smaragdis
Genres Comedy
Actors Joly Garbi, Nitsa Tsaganea, Giorgos Tzifos
Rating76%
The movie features between these different skecthes and comedic productions in Greek entertainment in the 1980s with Harry Klynn which laughed with different roles, one of them include: Officer Bekas which laughed in a of one fanatic and entered the wrong home, Artemis which he had existence of an entry and Golfo in which Klynn played and as Trabakoula, a kindly Vlach which he lived in an unnamed village in which progression and the teconology they do not have made it without knowing who brought it by the shipper from the city. TVs and other electronics that changed their life.
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God Loves Caviar (2012)
, 1h41Directed by Yannis Smaragdis
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Actors Sebastien Koch, John Cleese, Christoforos Papakaliatis, Catherine Deneuve, Lakis Lazopoulos
Roles Writer
Rating58%
The film is based upon the true story of Ioannis Varvakis, a Greek caviar merchant and eventual benefactor from Psara who was formerly a pirate. He was born in Psara, and from an early age he learned to navigate the seas, an occupation revered and steeped in tradition on the island where he grew up. At the age of 17 he built his own ship, which he would later offer to the Russians during the Orlov Revolt. Ultimately, his ship was destroyed, and he turned to Saint Petersburg to ask for an audience with Catherine the Great. He was given compensation for the loss of his ship and granted authorization to fish freely in the Caspian Sea. Lending to his superb navigational skills and excellent seamanship abilities, he dominated the Caspian Sea and soon became substantially wealthy. When he initially discovered the superior caviar of the Beluga Sturgeon, he quickly discerned that there could be an incredible market trading for this product. From the caviar trade he eventually became a millionaire and later donated part of his fortune for important works that improved the life of Russians and Greeks on the Black Sea coasts. In his later years, he became a member of the Filiki Eteria, which would contribute to the overthrow of the Ottoman rule of Greece. He passed away in 1825 in Zante, during the Greek War of Independence. After his death, his entire estate went to the Ioannis Varvakis Foundation which would offer up important grants throughout Greece. The script follows the entire life of Varvakis, but the film's narration begins with his final moments in Zante.
El Greco (2007)
, 1h59Directed by Yannis Smaragdis
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Seafaring films, Peinture, Transport films, Documentary films about the visual arts
Actors Laia Marull, Lakis Lazopoulos, Sotiris Moustakas, Theo Alexander
Roles Writer
Rating64%
The film tells the story of Domenicos Theotokopoulos, better known as El Greco, a great Greek artist of the 16th century with an uncompromising character, who sets off from his homeland Crete and goes to Venice and finally Toledo, in search of freedom and love. There he is confronted by his greatest adversary, the Spanish Inquisition, but his creative consciousness and power make him stand out and overcome barbarity and ignorance.
The Song Of Return (1983)
, 1h35Directed by Yannis Smaragdis
Genres Drama
Actors Stathis Giallelis, Katia Dandoulaki, Athinodoros Prousalis, Sperantza Vrana
Roles Writer
Rating75%
Producer
The Song Of Return (1983)
, 1h35Directed by Yannis Smaragdis
Genres Drama
Actors Stathis Giallelis, Katia Dandoulaki, Athinodoros Prousalis, Sperantza Vrana
Roles Producer
Rating75%
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The Travelling Players (1975)
, 3h50Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Christoforos Nezer (d. 1996), Giorgos Tzifos
Roles Script
Rating78%
A group of travelling players peregrinates through Greece attempting to perform the popular erotic drama Golfo The Shepherdess. In a first level the film focuses on the historical events between 1939 and 1952 as they are experienced by the travelling players and as they affect the villages which they visit: The last year of Metaxas' fascist dictatorship, the war against the Italians, the Nazi occupation, the liberation, the civil war between left and right wingers, the British and American interventionism in the Greek politics. In a second level the characters live their own drama of jealousy and betrayal, with its roots in the ancient myth of the House of Atreus. Agamemnon, a Greek refugee from Asia Minor, goes to war against the Italians in 1940, joins the resistance against the Germans, and is executed by them after being betrayed by Clytemnestra and Aegisthos. Aegisthos, Clytemnestra's lover, is an informer and collaborator working with the German occupiers. Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, fights on the side of the leftists, avenges his father's death by killing his mother and Aegisthos. He is arrested in 1949 for his guerrilla activities and is executed in prison in 1951. Electra, his sister, helps the leftists and aids her brother in avenging the treachery of their mother and Aegisthos. After the death of Orestes she continues the work of the troupe and her relationship with Pylades. Chrysotheme, Electra's younger sister, collaborates with the Germans, prostitutes herself during the occupation, sides with the British during liberation, and later marries an American. Pylades, close friend of Orestes, is a Communist who is exiled by the Metaxas regime, joins the guerrillas and is arrested and exiled again. Finally he is forced to sign a written denunciation of the left after torture by the right wing and he is released from prison in 1950.