Stavros Tsiolis

Known for DirectingBorn 1937-10-06Died 2019-07-23Tripoli, Greece

Stavros Tsiolis (Tripoli 6 October 1937 - Athens 23 July 2019) was a director and screenwriter of the new Greek cinema. Stavros Tsiolis studied cinema at the L. Stavrakou Television Film School in Athens and from 1958 he worked as an assistant director on 54 films, many of them by Finos Film. His first own film, which was based on his own screenplay, was The Little Fugitive for Finos Film in 1968. In 1970 he had an international success with the film Abuse of Power. He then left cinema for fifteen years and returned in 1985 with films that were particularly successful. His film A So Long Absence won six first prizes at the Thessaloniki festival in 1985, while Invincible Lovers in 1988 was played at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.Read more

Movies & web series

Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South

O mikros drapetis

Crows

World Gone Mad

Please, Ladies, Don't Cry

Love forever

Women Who Passed My Way

Let the Women Wait!

To kanarini podilato

The Heirs

Heron for Germany

A Matter of Conscience

The Blue Beads from Greece

Canteen

Panic

Love Under the Date-Tree

Such a Long Absence

Here We Are!

Invincible Lovers

Abuse of authority

Olga Robards

The Jungle of Cities

About Vassilis

Kierion

Teddy Boy My Love

My wife went mad

Stefania

The Lost Treasure of Hursit Pasha

Two Feet in One Shoe