Yiorgos Stamboulopoulos
Biography
Yiorgos Stamboulopoulos was born in Athens in 1936 and he is a cinema director and scriptwriter. From 1956 and for a decade he worked as an assistant director and production manager in more than fifty Greek films and around twelve foreign productions that were shot in Greece.
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Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • as Self
A documentary about cinema censorship during the dictatorship in Greece (1967- 1974), based on never-before-seen state archives. The film includes clips of films which were either censored or banned, newsreels of that era, interviews with famous directors and also secret documents from the reports of the Censorship Committee that are made public for the first time, portraying a revealing picture of the system’s control mechanisms and providing a fresco of that time.