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Filmmaker · Greece

Stelios Tatasopoulos

Died in 2000

Stelios Tatasopoulos, born in Constantinople in 1908 to a socialist father, went to Greece after the catastrophe of Smyrna, learned cinema at the school of the Dag Film company and acting under Rondiris and Veakis. He left again to study directing in Paris in 1933 and settled in Athens in 1939. An accountant by trade, he joined the Resistance, founded a film workers' union during the Occupation and filmed the last battles of the People's Liberation Army, reels now lost. He directed twenty-seven films and died on 13 July 2000.

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