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Nikos Papatakis
Writer 1918 - 2010

Nikos Papatakis

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Nico Papatakis was an Ethiopian-born Greek filmmaker, who lived in France. Papatakis was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and spent his early years between Ethiopia and Greece. In 1939, he established himself in Paris and worked as an extra in films. Eventually, he owned the... Read full bio →

Filmography

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I fotografia

I fotografia

Nikos Papatakis 1987 1h 52m

A young Greek man goes to Paris seeking help from a solitary and almost misanthropic distant relative who works as a furrier. With him, he takes nothing from his homeland but a photograph of a woman that he finds on the pavement.

Gloria mundi

Gloria mundi

Nikos Papatakis 1976 2h 10m

An actress of political torture movies made by her husband has to finish his latest film and arrange a screening for distributors while the husband, who is also secretly an anarchist revolutionary, is away for some resistance operation.

Oi voskoi

Oi voskoi

Nikos Papatakis 1967 2h

Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marriage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to Despina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But Despina’s father, Vlahopoulos refuses to give his blessings.

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