Fotos Lambrinos

Biography

Fotos Lambrinos was a graduate of the Moscow Film Institute (1965-1970) in the workshop of Mikhail Romm. He worked as a director in radio and theater, as well as as a film critic in the newspapers Avgi and Demokratiki Allagi. He also directed many documentaries and the feature films: Aris Velouchiotis – the dilemma (1981), Doxombous (1987), Birthday Party or A Silent Balkan Story (1995), Captain Kemal, the Comrade (2007), The Great Utopia (2017). He extensively researched, in collaboration with Costas Gavras, Nikos Svoronos and Dimitris Despotidis, the international newsreel film archives in Europe and the USA, which helped in the subsequent production of the Panorama of the Century series (...