Director

Stavros Tsiolis

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Directed movies: 13Directed series: 0All crew credits: 24

TMDB ID: 568847

IMDb ID: nm0875040

Known for: Directing

Born: October 6, 1937

Died: July 23, 2019

Age: 81

Place of birth: Tripoli, Greece

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1963 - 2018

Years active: 56

Average TMDB rating: 8.2

Wikidata: Q7604867

Also known as

Σταύρος Τσιώλης

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Director (7)Assistant Director (6)Writer (6)Producer (2)Screenplay (2)Assistant Production Coordinator (1)

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Biography

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.

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