Costas Ferris
Directing
Biography
Costas Ferris is a Greek film director, writer, actor, and producer. He wrote the lyrics of Aphrodite's Child's album 666. His 1983 film Rembetiko won the Silver Bear at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.
Born: April 18, 1935
Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
Known For
Ariadni
The Lecco, an art collector, promises to help him, asking him to return to bring him a valuable vase from the archaeological museum of Amorgos, stealing it and replacing it with a copy. Alkis accept and go on Amorgos where he meets a girl, Ariadne. The divine aura of mysterious girl, no one on the island knows or has seen in captivates and entangles in a strange metaphysical conundrum, where added and the sudden death of Lecco.
Loafing and Camouflage
A group of Greek soldiers are assigned to run the Cinematographic Unit of the army in the midst of political unrest.
Rembetiko
The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.
A Bullet Through the Heart
Francesco, a young Sicilian aristocrat, scars an aging gangster who has set out to take away his property. The gangster vows to obtain vengeance, and Francesco is forced to flee across Greece with his girl friend, pursued by his antagonist's vicious henchmen.
Made in Greece
Giannis Giannakis, released from psychiatric hospital after many years, decides to return home to his parents. On his way back he slowly discovers that the outside world is crazier than he thought - and starts to question whether he'd be better off back in the psychiatric ward.
Kierion
Athens 1967. The political assassinations and the background between the government and foreign powers, on the occasion of the "Polk Case", where an innocent leftist was convicted for the murder of an American journalist in Greece.
The Blood
An apocalyptic vision of man after a cosmic catastrophe, this film is a terrifying metaphor of a dehumanized future. The Brazilian Cinema Novo, German expressionism of the twenties, and the ideologically motivated ‘cruelty’ of a Buñuel come together in this ferocious work of a French theatre collective – an ambitious, almost completely successful example of visual cinema at its best.
Exile on Main Avenue
A disillusioned forty-something wanders through a city and his past, rejected by every ideology he once believed in. Neither love nor theory can fill the void—so he stages his own theatrical death.
Vitsia gynaikon
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Filmography
as Leko
as Mexican singer
as Man at Carnival
as K...