Dimos Avdeliodis
Directing
Biography
No biography available for Dimos Avdeliodis.
Born: November 3, 1952
Place of Birth: Chios, Greece
Known For
Educate Yourself My Son
The most important political, post-military junta satire about the nation, the religion, the education, the family.
Unfair Competition
Dimos Avdeliodis pays homage to Charles Chaplin and all his favorite silent heroes. This is the first film he directed.
Nike of Samothrace
A blacksmith and a car mechanic, harboring a hostile relationship they inherited from their grandfathers, must come to terms with a new way of dealing with each other, when the blacksmith faces economic struggle and the mechanic offers to buy him out.
Happy Day
A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled political prisoners. The everyday life of the prisoners consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, arbitrary punishments and other torments. One of the prisoners who refuses to yield is subjected to torture. Trying to escape, he falls into the sea. When the Queen visits the island, the prison guards find the runaway and murder him without a second thought, since he is already assumed dead.
Tales of a Honeycomb
The daily routine, alienation, and conventionality of the lives of a group of actors and filmmakers.
An All-Weather Man
An approach to the phenomenon of Thanasis Vengos, the man and the artist, through film excerpts, testimonies of his collaborators and relatives and analyses of his symbolic role in the post-war modern Greek reality. Thanasis Vengos, for more than fifty years, was one of the most important actors in Greece. His films and lines are written in history, raising more than three generations of Greeks.
Filmography
as Self
as Grigoris Perdikas / Grandson of Grigoris Perdikas
as Tricycle Owner