Nikos Papatakis

Nikos Papatakis was born in 1918 in Addis Ababa to a Greek father and an Ethiopian mother, and settled in Paris in 1939. After the war, he ran the cabaret La Rose Rouge in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where Juliette Gréco and Mouloudji performed, produced Jean Genet's only film in 1950 and in 1951 married the actress Anouk Aimée. Exiled to New York in 1957, he co-produced John Cassavetes's first film. He directed five films, one of them shot clandestinely against the dictatorship of the colonels, and died in Paris in 2010, aged ninety-two.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmLes AbyssesNikos Papatakis · 1963Cinema