VOULGARIS PANTELIS
(1940) DirectorPantelis Voulgaris was born in Athens in 1940 and studied at the Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos. Like many other Greek filmmakers of his generation, he began his career as an assistant director at Finos Film Studios. He had already worked in over twenty film productions when he made his debut with two short films, “The Thief” in 1965 and “Jimmy the Tiger” in 1966. In 1970, while Greece was firmly under the fascist military regime of the colonels, he completed “The Engagement of Anna”, which was among the first and most distinctive manifestations of a different and dynamic cinema that would soon be known as New Greek Cinema. Since then, his films have won international acclaim and numerous awards, establishing his reputation as one of the foremost Greek film directors. Pantelis Vouglaris has also directed several documentaries for Greek television and an hour-long documentary on the poet Yannis Ritsos for German Television. He has also directed theatre plays. In 1995 he was honoured by the Museum of Modern Art in New York with a mid-career retrospective.
As he has admitted, in his films, he is “obsessed” with the Greek Civil War, which he believes was never actually resolved and, as a result, it still polarises people.
He has transferred to the big screen novels written by his wife, Ioanna Karystiani.
Since 2015, he has been the artistic director of the International Festival of Andros.
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