PANTELIS VOULGARIS

With executive producer Martin Scorsese and a screenplay by writer Ioanna Karystiani, this is perhaps the most ambitious film of Pantelis Voulgaris' filmography, a grandiose and heartbreaking love story that is crushed by the weight of history. — The journey of 700 women of Greek, Turkish and Russian origin from Istanbul to New York in 1922, where they meet the men they are to marry, and the love on board between one of these women and an American photographer. — Best Film | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2004 Best Actress (Victoria Haralabidou) | Thessaloniki Film Festival |2004

Pantelis Voulgaris visualizes the iconic work of Manos Hadjidakis with a project that goes beyond the narrow boundaries of the documentary and reaches more the free performance - a free play of image and sound, on the unsurpassed compositions and lyrics of the great work. — Magnus Eroticus is a series of ten love songs by Manos Hadjidakis with lyrics by Sappho, Elytis, Myrtiotissa, Sarantaris, Cavafy and others. In the film, the cinematographic lens translates the emotion from the sonic erotic atmosphere of the music, making a visual journey through Athens. Alongside the journey through the city, we follow the process of recording the songs in the studio, where even the film crew itself becomes part of the developments. — Honorary Award for Cinematography | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1973

One of Pantelis Voulgaris' most famous films and at the same time one of the most important moments in contemporary Greek cinema, this Venice and Thessaloniki award-winning story of doomed love is still moving and thrilling. — The story of a young left-wing couple from the early post-civil war years to the post-communist revolution of 1974, during the harsh years of lawlessness, persecution, arrests and imprisonment. — Special Mention for Best Performance (Themis Bazaka) | Venice Film Festival | 1985 Specia Mention - OCIC Award | Venice Film Festival | 1985 Best Film | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1985 Best Actress (Themis Bazaka) | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1985

After the success of "Little England", Pantelis Voulgaris continues to record modern Greek society and history, with one of its most famous pages. A tragic, deeply political historical drama, with a script by Ioanna Karystiani and starring Andreas Konstantinou. — Greece, Haidari concentration camp, before May Day '44. 34-year-old Napoleon Soukatzidis acts as an interpreter for the German camp commander, Karl Fischer. Napoleon is one of the 200 people selected to be executed on May 1 at Caesarian in retaliation for the deaths of four Germans from the Greek resistance. On the day of the execution he will be faced with a dilemma of life when Fisher gives him the opportunity to opt out and put someone else in his place. — Best Actor (Andreas Konstantinou) | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2018 Best Makeup | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2018 Best Sound | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2018 Best Costume Design | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2018

Cinobo, drop it. Pantelis Voulgaris and three exceptional actors compose a portrait of modern Greek rural masculinity that is touching, tender and funny, culminating in one of the most cult moments in modern Greek cinema. — A modular film consisting of three different stories, a triptych shot in Northern Greece, with a common theme of a lonely man at a critical moment in his life. — Best Actor (Giorgos Armenis) | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1998