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Filmmaker · Greece

Joseph Hepp

Died in 1968

Joseph Hepp, born in Budapest in 1887 and trained at the Pest polytechnic, worked in France for the Pathé company, which sent him to Athens as a technician, in 1908 according to the General State Archives, in 1910 according to other sources, to install the first projectors. He stayed there, trained the Greek operators and directed the screenings at the Panellínion, one of the city's first cinemas. He filmed the operations in Thrace in 1919 and followed the Greek army in Asia Minor in 1920. He died in 1968.

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