Tasos Zografos

Art

Biography

Tasos Zografos was born in Livadia in 1926. He came to Athens in 1940, lived through the war and the occupation. In '47 he enrolled at the School of Fine Arts, but did not attend due to the events of the Civil War. From '46 he began working in set design, never as a painter, never as a painter. During his years of exile in Makronissos he did set designs for many theatrical works. In '50 he returned to Athens and worked as a set designer at the Free Theatre. The National Theatre had excluded him for his "social" views. In '53 he began to do sets in small theatres. He established himself as a set designer in '55 with his work on N. Koundouros' film "The Dragon". Since then he has done set design and costumes for 200 films. He has designed over 90 plays in the Theater and many TV series. He has received 5 awards for his work from the Thessaloniki Film Festival, one state award and 2 from Greek Television. As a painter, he held 8 solo exhibitions and took part in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. His works are in many collections and galleries. He has written essays and studies on scenography in art magazines and newspapers, fairy tales and a play for children. Tasos Zografos died in April 2011 at the age of 85.

Filmography Movies

Acting

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An All-Weather Man

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An approach to the phenomenon of Thanasis Vengos, the man and the artist, through film excerpts, testimonies of his collaborators and relatives and analyses of his symbolic role in the post-war modern Greek reality. Thanasis Vengos, for more than fifty years, was one of the most important actors in Greece. His films and lines are written in history, raising more than three generations of Greeks.

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An All-Weather Man

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Odyssea Corporum - Ballad for Nikos KoundourosMOVIE

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Odyssea Corporum - Ballad for Nikos Koundouros

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A cinematic portrait of director Nikos Koundouros, this documentary explores his artistic journey through the voices of renowned Greek artists, tracing the experiences and influences that shaped his visionary work.

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Odyssea Corporum - Ballad for Nikos Koundouros

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Production

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The Drunk of the Harbor

10.0(0.0K)

A sailor, whose life has been destroyed in every way, is drunk all the time. By chance, he discovers the current owner of the villa that used to belong to him.

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The Drunk of the Harbor

Set Decoration

Heron for GermanyMOVIE

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Heron for Germany

7.0(0.0K)

The chronicle of Loukas Kostoglou, a publisher devoted to poetry, and Marios, his assistant, who is love with Nina.

Trouba '67

6.6(0.0K)

A dark atmosphere pervades this film in true noir fashion. So does the feeling that our principals are trapped. They fight their way against economic forces and their status in life, and love might conquer all.

The Hot Month of August

4.8(0.0K)

A young man, Jason, is on his way home and meets two beautiful women, Hope and Alexis. He falls for Hope, but has sex with Alexis. He doesn't know that Alexis' husband has hired a private detective to trail her, and the man reports back to Alexis' husband about her affair with Jason. The husband kills Alexis but the police suspect Jason. He and Hope have to clear his name and find enough evidence to prove the husband is the killer.

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The Hot Month of August

Set Decoration

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Thou-Vou Bald Agent, Operation: Havoc

7.1(0.0K)

Thou-Vou and his new partner, MAP31, accept three imaginary tasks from a cunning director who is only interested in filming the unsuspecting duo for his upcoming movie feature. Will the agents manage to squeeze success out of failure?

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Thou-Vou Bald Agent, Operation: Havoc

Scenic Artist

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Thou-Vou Bald Agent, Operation: Havoc

7.1(0.0K)

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Thou-Vou Bald Agent, Operation: Havoc

Set Decoration

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Doctor Z-Vengos

7.1(0.0K)

A blunderer barber ends after a misunderstanding to pretend doctor. However the patients problems aren't medical nature but personally so he helps them.

Thanasis, Take Your Gun

7.1(0.0K)

A wretch jobber tries to find the money to build the house promised to groom, to repay the truck he drives and help a poor girl, who has been eviction, find somewhere to stay.

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Thanasis, Take Your Gun

Set Decoration

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The Bald Student

5.6(0.0K)

Thanasis, a family breadwinner who has been working for 17 years at the Ministry of Measure and Station without any promotion, is trying to cover his expenses by doing a second job. When he learns that he can not be promoted because he does not own a high school diploma, he decides to go back to school.

Babylonia

5.3(0.0K)

In 1827, at an inn in Nafplio, the capital of the newly established Greek state, a group of people from different parts of Greece are celebrating the defeat of the Turkish fleet in Navarino. However, in their patriotic fervor they drink too much, and a hot-tempered Arvanite, not understanding the dialect of a Cretan and thinking he has insulted him, injures him with a pistol. Police Inspector Dionysios Fantes from the Ionian Islands arrives at the scene to interrogate the witnesses but he too can't understand their various dialects as they can't understand his.

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Babylonia

Costume Designer