
Known for
Directing
Born
December 15, 1926
Birthplace
Athens, Greece
Died
February 22, 2017 (aged 90)
Nikos Koundouros (Greek: Νίκος Κούνδουρος; 15 December 1926 – 22 February 2017) was a Greek film director.
Koundouros was born in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, in 1926. He studied painting and sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts. During the war he was a member of the left-wing resistance movement EAM-ELAS, and because of this was subsequently exiled to the Makronissos prison island. At the age of 28 he decided to follow a career in cinematography. He started his career as a director of the film Magiki Polis (1954), where he combined his neorealism influences with his own artistic viewpoint. He cast Thanasis Veggos, who he had met at Makronissos, as one of the characters in Magiki Polis. Af...
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Director
2016
Director
2013
as Self
2012
Director, Writer
2011
as Self
2010
as Νίκος Κούνδουρος
2010
2008
as Big One
2004
as Self
1998
Writer, Director, Art Direction, Editor
1992
Director, Writer, Producer
1985
Director, Writer, Producer
1978
Director, Screenplay
1975
Director, Producer
1967
Director, Writer, Producer
1963
Director, Producer
1960
Director, Writer
1958
Director, Writer
1956
Director, Editor
1955
Director, Producer