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Nikos Tsiforos (Greek: Νίκος Τσιφόρος, 1912 – 6 August 1970) was a Greek screenwriter and film director. He wrote 64 films between 1948 and 1970. He also directed 17 films between 1948 and 1961.
Biography
He was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1912. Two years later, his family was resettled alone in Athens. When he was eleven, Nikos Tsiforos began to educate furiously with writing, he also wrote his first play in 1938 in a summer theatre in Freattyda. His first try successed but Nikos did not disapproved. From there he took the degree at law, worked for the two years at the Election Council and later resigned for boating in ships. He continued to change in 1939, but he continued to write in films in different writings. His first big success was in 1944 by the companies of Dimitris Horn and Mairi Aroni elevated himself into the Akropol Theatre, his theatrical work I pinakothiki ton ilithion. Four years later, he made a periodical in 1948 and 1949 and did his first film in which renamed with the title Teleftea apostoli, even as a director and a writer.
In his later years, he wrote in different newspapers including Fileleftheros, Vima and Eleftheros Kosmos and in periodicals Trust, Romantso, Tahidromos (The Post) and Panthoeon where he wrote over 40 theatrical works and over 80 plays. One of these wrote only by himself and otherwise as he worked mainly with Polyvios Vassiliadis (in which he ran one of the most important twins of theatrical works).
Tsiforos died on August 6, 1970.
Plays
Anthropi ke anthropakia (Άνθρωποι και ανθρωπάκια)
Athens Today, Cruises Inside History (Η Αθήνα σήμερα - Κρουαζιέρες μέσα στην ιστορία (I Athina simera - Krouazieres mesa stin istoria)
Beautiful Thessaloniki (Όμορφη Θεσσαλονίκη = Omorfi Thessaloniki)
Children from the Piazza (Τα παιδιά της πιάτσας (Ta pedia tis piatsas)
Diyimata (Διηγήματα)
Eortastika (Εορταστικά)
The First Tsiforos (Ο πρώτος Τσιφόρος = O Protos Tsiforos)
Milon Firikis (Μίλων Φιρίκης)
Greek cruises (Ελληνική κρουαζιέρα)
Greek mythology (Ελληνική μυθολογία)
O Gulliver stin hora ton Gigandon - O Gulliver stin hora ton nanon (Ο Γκιούλιβερ στη χώρα των Γιγάντων - Ο Γκιούλιβερ στη χώρα των νάνων, first part, Gulliver in the Land of the Giants)
The History of Athens (Η Ιστορία της Αθήνας (I Istoria tis Athinas)
History of England (Ιστορία της Αγγλίας (Istoria tis Anglias)
History of France (Ιστορία της Γαλλίας (Istoria tis Galias)
History of the United States (Ιστορία των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών (Istoria ton Ipomenon Polition))
Hronografimata (Χρονογραφήματα)
Jim the Bad Poet (Τζιμ κακής ποιότητος (Jim kakis piotitos)
I konkistradori (Οι κονκισταδόροι)
My Lucky Star (Το τυχερό μου αστέρι (To tihero mou asteri)
Ta paliopeda t atithassa (Τα παλιόπαιδα τ' ατίθασα)
Ourselves and the Franks (Εμείς και οι Φράγκοι)
Paramithis pisso apo ta kagela (Παραμύθια πίσω από τα κάγκελα)
People and People (Ο κόσμος κι ο κοσμάκης (O kosmos ki o kosmakis)
I pinakothiki ton ilithion (Η πινακοθήκη των ηλιθίων)
Ta remalia iroes (Τα ρεμάλια ήρωες)
Steve to haroumeno katharma ('Στηβ το χαρούμενο κάθαρμα )
Secret Companies (Οι μυστικές εταιρίες = I mistikes eteries)
Vivliki hamoyela (Βιβλικά χαμόγελα)
I yineka koursaros (Η γυναίκα κουρσάρος)
Selected filmography
Year Film Transliteraion and translation
1950 The Last Mission Τελευταία αποστολή
Teleftaia apostoloi
1951 To paidi mou prepei na zisei Το παιδί μου πρέπει να ζήσει
1953 The Tower of Knights Ο πύργος των ιπποτών
O pirgos ton ipoton
1954 The Little Mouse Το ποντικάκι
To pondikaki
1954 O anemos tou missous Ο άνεμος του μίσους
1954 I oraia ton Athinon Η ωραία των Αθηνών
1955 Γλέντι, λεφτά και αγάπη Glendi, lefta ke agapi
1956 Gypsy Blood Τσιγγάνικο αίμα
Tsiganiko ema
1957 The Three Detectives Τρεις ντεντέκτιβς
Tris detectives
1957 The Lady Ο γυναικάς
O yinekas
1958 The Money Ο λεφτάς
O leftas
1959 O thisavros tou makariti Ο θησαυρός του μακαρίτη
1960 Treis koukles ki ego Τρεις κούκλες κι εγώ
1960 O Klearchos i Marina kai o kontos Ο Κλέαρχος η Μαρίνα και ο κοντός
1967 Oh! That Wife of Mine -
Bibliography
Sylvia Mittler, "The Crusades and Frankish Medieval Greece as (Re)Appropriation: Carnivalesque Historiography and Modern Greek Humorist Nikos Tsiforos." In: Postmodern Medievalisms, ed. Richard Utz and Jesse G. Swan (Cambridge: Brewer, 2004), pp. 209–36.
Sylvia Mittler, "Subversive Storytelling: Popular Historiography, Alternative Cultural Memory, and Modern Greek Humorist Nikos Tsiforos." In: Oral and Written Narratives and Cultural Identity, ed. Francisco Cota Fagundes and Irene Maria F. Blayer (New York: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 171–88.
External links
Nikos Tsiforos at the Internet Movie Database
The Nikos Tsiforos Unofficial Page
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