Koundouros sophocles biography

He hadn't been in Athens or in Greece before, as he was born in Cyprus, in a genteel family of colonial officials.
Sophocles specializes in heroism.
Sophocles was born at Colonus near Athens in about 495 B. C. Koundouros at the border of former Yugoslavia with a military.

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1 Sophocles' Antigone Introduction, translation, and notes by ...

Sophocles' Antigone

Introduction, translation, and notes by

Marianne McDonald, Ph.D., MRIA

Introduction

Sophocles is the playwright of heroism, and Antigone the first female character in

drama to be a hero in the full sense of the word. She is the first conscientious objector.

The play is often performed as veiled criticism of the government prevailing at the time to

show that something is rotten in that particular state.

First, I offer a look at tragedy as it was originally performed, then Sophocles' other

work, and</st

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Nikos Koundouros and the Cinema of Cruel Realism Realistic images for an absurd world

3 Nikos Koundouros and the Cinema of Cruel Realism Realistic images for an absurd world I was never a man of theory, of paper, of writing. I am a man for movement and construction. I am a film constructionist, and this is how I like to be called. Nikos Koundouros1 The work of Nikos Koundouros is not very well known outside Greece. Although his film The Ogre of Athens/O Drakos (1956) is considered by many critics the best movie produced in the country, his fame has been restricted because of his extremely versatile style, the lack of international distribution of his major films and, more significantly, his persistent exploration of obscure, almost subterranean structures of contemporary Greek social and political life. Furthermore, his intense exploration of history led to the development of a cryptic and allegorical style, which further hinders the international reception of his later films – more recently, even their understanding by domestic audiences. From his first feature film in 1954 to t

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George Tzavellas

Greek film director (1916–1976)

For the footballer, see Georgios Tzavellas.

George Tzavellas, also rendered Giorgos Tzavellas, Yiorgos Tzavellas, or Yorgos Javellas (Greek: Γιώργος Τζαβέλλας, 1916, Athens – October 18, 1976),^[1] was a Greek film director, screenwriter, and playwright. His filmmaking was particularly influential, with critic Georges Sadoul considering him "one of the three major postwar Greek directors" (along with Michael Cacoyannis and Nikos Koundouros).^[2]

Tzavellas wrote at least 26 plays, in addition to writing the scripts for all of his films.^[2] Among his notable films are Marinos Kontaras (1948), the drama O methystakas (1950), and Antigone (1961), a cinematic adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy.^[2] His adaptation of Antigone reimagined it in the language of realist cinema, omitting stylized elements of Greek stageplay such as the chorus, and attempting to convey the same information via setting and dialogue.^[3] In 1964 he was a member of the jury at the 14th Berlin Int