Stavros Tornes

Known for DirectingBorn 1932-01-01Died 1988-07-26Athens, Greece

Stavros Tornes (Greek: Σταύρος Τορνές) was a Greek film actor and director. Tornes was born in 1932 in Athens. He studied at the Ioannidis School in 1957 and worked as an assistant director and as an actor in films of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1967 he directed his first short film "Theraikos orthros" together with Kostas Sfikas. During the dictatorship he went to Italy where he participated in a group of exiles, fighting against the military junta. In 1973 he secretly visited Greece and filmed the documentary Students. In Italy (Rome) he appeared in many films, such as Many Wars Ago and Christ Stopped at Empoli by Francesco Rossi, and Alonzanfan by the Taviani brothers. It is worth noting that he played the leading role in the television film Nausicaa by Agnès Varda. He also painted. After the fall of the dictatorship, he returned to Greece and filmed the film Balamos, which was screened at the 1982 Thessaloniki Film Festival. With co-screenwriter Charlotte van Gelder, he also directed the films Karkalou, Danilo Treles and A Heron for Germany. He died in July 1988 and was buried in the Caesarean Cemetery.Read more

Movies & web series

Πλατεία Ιπποδαμείας

The Beauty of Roumeli

Witches

Misunderstanding

To mystiko tou kokkinou mandya

Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South

Balamos

Many Wars Ago

Christ Stopped at Eboli

Heron for Germany

City of Women

Exopragmatiko

Topos

Glory Sky

Thirean Matins

Allonsanfan

Our Tears Have Dried Up

Open Letter

The Roundup

Danilo Treles: The Famous Andalusian Musician

Lucky Luciano

Coatti

Nausicaa

Kierion

Karkalou

The Daywork of Happiness

Varieté

Sharp as a Needle

Deserted and alone to make my pain go away

For the Poet Nikos Kavvadias

Addio Anatolia

Fishermen and Fishing