Fotos Lamprinos

Fotos Lamprinos studied film in Moscow-VGIK, (1965-1970) in the laboratory of Michael Romm.  His graduation project, “Visit Greece” (1970),  was an historical retrospect  of the period 1936 – 1967, composed out of newsreels found in the archives of the former Soviet Union. The film won the 1st prize at the 1970 Festival of the Institute of Cinematography .

1971-1973 In collaboration with Costa-Gavras, he thoroughly examined 22 governmental and private film archives in Europe and the United States in order to register news’ reels material referring to Greece (1911-1971).

1973-1974 He worked with Theo Angelopoulos on the script for Angelopoulos’ film “The Travelling Players”.

The period 1975-2013 he has directed over 100 feature length, shorts documentaries, and TV-doc series for the Greek Television (ERT) .

2005-2007 He also collaborated with ERT (National Broadcaster) and EDN, with the program “History Doc”, in order to co-produce and distribute Greek documentaries.

2007-2010 He was collaborating with the “National Audiovisual Archive” in order to organize the film archive material of newsreels for the 20th century.

1993-2002 he was lecturing at the Universities of Crete, Thessalia and Athens,  on the subject: “History and Cinema”

Filmography:

2016 The Great Utopia. The Soviet Union from 1917 to 1934.

2008 Captain Kemal. The story of a Turk who volunteered in the Greek Civil War.

1995 Birthday Party, or….a Silent Story of the Balkans. The silent period of the Balkan Cinema.

1987 Doxobus (fiction film) An unknown Byzantium for the first time on the screen

1981 Aris Velouhiotis, the Dilemma a docu¬mentary about the Greek rebel during

the German Occupation (1941-1944)

1970 Visit Greece (Moscow, VGIK).

1964 100 Hours in May, about the assassi¬nation of leftist deputy Gregory Lambrakis

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