Nikos Alevras
Biography
Nikos Alevras was born in 1948. He studied cinema at the Stavrakos School. In 1969 he worked at Anaparastas (Th. Angelopoulos) where he also played an important role. In 1974 he won the best director award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival for his short film My Grandfather. In 1975 he began working in television. In 1977 his film "Bullets Fall Like Hail" was censored and banned (In 1984 it was cut a few minutes after the start of its television broadcast by ERT-2 in the family "Saturday movie" due to its content).
Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Michalis returns to the tobacco growers of his rural village after having spent some time in the city and persuades them to form a collective, rather than suffer the poverty-inducing prices they are paid for their crops by tobacco brokers. They agree not to sell to any of the brokers and start to form a farmers' group. When one of the farmers breaks the agreement and is found dead, Michalis is accused. However, rather than expose the farmers' plight and give publicity to the brokers' greed, the motive the government gives for the killing is thi asimanton aformin, for unimportant reasons.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as Prosecutor's Assistant
An immigrant returns to his village after many years, only to find that no one is waiting for him. When his wife and her lover murder him, an investigator attempts to reconstruct the crime, while a film crew documents the event.
Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A left-wing ideologist reaches the limits of suicide, experiencing a deep crisis. He tries to write a book about everything that once existed, but has changed today. Everything around him seems distant. The friends, the family, the Party from which he withdrew. His hope for a different future is virtually dead.
Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A sarcastic, improvisational film, with anarchic origins, strongly cinephile flavor, and largely autobiographical in nature and content. A film director strives to escape alienation, while, at the same time, expressing his intense feelings for his wife, cinema and Greece during the restoration of democracy.
Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • as Self
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.
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Antonis Katsaris stars as a teacher in the small village of Zante who fights the growing desire of many locals to abandon the village for the big city or other countries. He works hard to organize traditional cultural events, such as outdoor performances of the traditional play I Chrissomalloussa, in order to solidify local values and a sense of identity. The teacher is aided by a young woman, a widow who has just returned from Germany and lives with her father-in-law. Kazan walks away with the film, as his sinister desires for his daughter-in-law are inflamed when he sees that she has fallen in love with the teacher. These developments lead him to whip up protests against the play by conservative locals, claiming that the teacher has changed the traditional story by adding elements of propaganda with the potential of causing peasant uprisings. The result is an unexpectedly violent example of social censorship.
Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A film director, his relationships with women and the expression of his bitterly emotions about cinema and Greece