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- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Mikis Theodorakis was born in the Greek island of Chios, in 1925. It was the same year that the other great composer of Greece was born in Xanthi, Manos Hatzidakis. He fought during the 2nd World War, and was captured at the city of Tripoli. He was tortured, but when he was set free, he joined the partisan army of Greece named EAM, which means National Liberating Movement. He took part in the civil war in Greece which occurred during 1945-1949, always with the left parties of Greece. He was exiled for the first time in the island of Ikaria in 1947, he was transferred to the island of Makronisos in 1948.
He married Myrto Altinoglou, five years later in 1953, and one year later he moved in Paris in order to continue his studies in music. He composed continuously during the following years using some of the most wonderful poems in order to express the people of Greece. After Lamprakis, a Parliamentary representative was murdered, Theodorakis became a member of the Parliament and the number one enemy of the Right parties of Greece.
The great composer didn't not stop expressing his need and hope for democracy even when military dictator Georgios Papadopoulos took power in Greece in 1967. Some months later the military dictatorship decides that he is not 'welcome' in his own country, he was exiled for one more time. Great personalities express their support to this great composer, like Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Miller etc.
He became internationally famous when he composed the music for the film Zorba the Greek (1964), directed by Michael Cacoyannis and starring Anthony Quinn. But he was becoming very popular even before that film, when he was composing music for the Jules Dassin film Phaedra (1962) starring Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone, and Kakogiannis' Electra (1962) starring Irene Papas, Aleka Katselli. He even composed music for such acclaimed films like Z (1969) by Costa-Gavras starring Yves Montand and Papas, and Serpico (1973) by Sidney Lumet starring Al Pacino. He came back in 1974, but he stayed only for 6 years. Theodorakis was dissatisfied and went back in Paris and finished his third big work, Canto General, which together with the music from the film Zorba the Greek (1964) and "Axion Esti," a piece of work based on the poems of the Nobel winner poet Odysseas Elitis.
During the '80s, he became for one more time member of the Parliament and issue of controversy in the beginning of the 90s, when he collaborated with the right party's prime minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis. In 1992, he composed the Canto Olympico for the Olympic Games of Barcelona.
His opera Ilektra gained very good reviews, in Luxemburg, the Capital City Of Europe in 1995. He composed also another opera of Lysistrati for the Olympic Games of Athens in 2004. Although, he created controversies with his actions during the last decades, 1980-1990, Mikis Theodorakis was one of the greatest composers of Greece, and created the modern music of Greece together with Manos Hadjidakis.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Yiannis was born in Greece, studied drama, acting, got involved with Greek Culture. He is a theater and film director, member of: "Greek Theatrical Authors Society" (E.E.Th.S), "Greek Directors Guild" (G.D.G.), "Greek Actors' Union" (H.A.U.) & "International Theatre Institute" (I.T.I). Yiannis was an artistic director of one of the 15 state-municipal regional theaters of Greece (from 2010 to 2016). He teaches drama, improvisation and directing in drama schools and Universities. He has written, translated and adapted-dramatized plays that have been staged in professional scenes, many of them have been published (short stories, plays, theatrical metaphors of fairy tales etc).- Petrus Andreas Christensen was born on 13 June 1992 in Chios, Greece. He is an actor, known for Pitbullterje (2005), Lilyhammer (2012) and Åse Tonight (2011).
- Giannis Kapetanios was born on 11 February 1959 in Chios, Greece. He is an actor, known for Tis Ellados ta paidia (1993), I kali... pethera (1993) and To theatro tis Defteras (1970).
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Dimos (Aristodimos) Avdeliodis was born in 1952 in Chios, Greece.
He is a Greek film director, screenwriter, actor and producer.
He studied at the School of Philosophy at the University of Athens and attended acting classes at the Athens Drama School of Giorgos Theodosiadis.
Dimos Avdeliodis has directed several films and theatre plays. He has also taught cinema at the Department of Communication and Mass Media of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences from 1993 to 1998.
From 1997 to 2000, and from 2003 to 2010, he served as Artistic Director of the Municipal and Regional Theatre of North Aegean.
Dimos Avdeliodis is known for Mathe paidi mou grammata (1981); The Tree We Hurt (1986); Enas erodios gia ti Germania (1988); Nike of Samothrace (1990); To ainigma (1998), and Fanouropitta (1991).
He has a son, actor Yannis Avdeliodis.- Andreas Georgiou Papandreou (5 February 1919 - 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics, known for founding the political party PASOK, which he led from 1974 to 1996. He served three terms as the 3rd and 8th Prime Ministers of Greece. Papandreou's party win in the 1981 election was a milestone in the political history of Greece, since it was the first time that the elected government had a predominantly socialist political program. The achievements of his first two governments include the official recognition of the leftist and communist resistance groups of the Greek Resistance (EAM/ELAS) against the Axis occupation, the establishment of the National Health System and the Supreme Council for Personnel Selection (ASEP), the passage of Law 1264/1982 which secured the right to strike and greatly improved the rights of workers, the constitutional amendment of 1985-1986 which strengthened parliamentarism and reduced the powers of the indirectly-elected president, the conduct of an assertive and independent Greek foreign policy, the expansion in the power of local governments, many progressive reforms in Greek law and the granting of permission to the refugees of the Greek Civil War, of Greek ethnicity, to return home in Greece.
- John C. Carras was born in 1907 in Kardamyla, Chios, Greek.
- Demetrios Kavadas was born on 3 May 1932 in Chios, Greece. He died on 26 February 2007 in Troy, Michigan, USA.
- Virginia Tsesmetzi was born in Chios, Greece. She is known for To 10 (2007).
- Adamantios Lemos was born in 1916 in Kardamyla, Chios, Greece. He was an actor, known for Oneiro se aspro fondo (1996), Wind of Hate (1954) and To theatro tis Defteras (1970). He died in June 2006.