He studied law in Athens but after military service he went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne. He soon dropped out to study film at the IDHEC[?] before returning to Greece. Back home he worked as a journalist and film critic until the coup.
He made his first short film in 1968 and went on in the 1970s to make long films concerned with modern Greece - Meres Tou 36, O Thiassos and I Kynighoi. He quickly established a characteristic style, marked by slow, episodic and ambiguous structure and long, "sequence shot" takes. He moved into less political works after the end of the dictatorship, gaining Italian funding.
O Megalexandros won the Golden Lion[?] at the 1980 Venice Film Festival, and Topio stin Omichli shared the Silver Lion at Venice in 1988.
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