Nikos Koundouros

Nikos Koundouros, born in December 1926 into a Cretan family, studied painting and sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts, from which he graduated in 1948. A member of the left-wing resistance during the war, he was for that reason afterwards banished to the prison island of Makronisos. He came to cinema at the age of twenty-eight and became one of the most prominent Greek filmmakers of his time; in 1963 he received the Silver Bear for directing in Berlin for another film. He died in Athens on 22 February 2017, aged ninety.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmThe Ogre of AthensΟ ΔράκοςNikos Koundouros · 1956Cinema