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Jan 01, 1943 Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt Died on 13 Aug 2013 (aged 70) Capricorn
Giorgos Katakouzinos - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Giorgos Katakouzinos
- Giorgos Katakouzinos (Greek: G?????? ?ata????????) was a Greek film director and screenwriter.
- He was born in Alexandria, Egypt on January 1, 1943 and died in Athens on August 13, 2013.
- He is mostly known for his film Angelos, a film shot in 1982, which dealt with the topic of homosexuality.
- The film was inspired by a real event that happened a few years earlier.
- The film is considered pretty daring for the early 1980s, because homosexuality was social stigma in conservative Greek society of those times.
- The film won three awards in Thessaloniki film festival among them the best film award.
- The second film Apousies (Absences) deals with a Greek bourgeois family in the early 20th century and won accolades in Valencia International Film Festival.
- His third film Zoe was also inspired by a real crime that had shocked Greek society in the late 1980s.
- He had also worked in Greek television.
