Vasilis Georgiadis

Vasilis Georgiadis, born in the Dardanelles on 12 August 1921, arrived in Greece as a child with his refugee family, who settled in Xylokastro after the catastrophe of 1922. He financed his first film himself in 1956, in which he also played a small part. Another of his films was nominated in 1966 for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. From 1972 he turned to television, where he adapted classics of Greek literature. Honoured for his body of work in Thessaloniki in 1999, he died in Athens on 30 April 2000.

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• Feature filmThe Red LanternsΤα κόκκινα φανάριαVasilis Georgiadis · 1963Cinema