Sakis Rouvas is looking for the idols of another era in the Idols documentary series, every Friday at 21.00, at SKAI.
Faces – idols that shaped their own universe. Unconventional personalities who set their own limits and exceeded them. Everything we would like to know about our idols. Personalities who stigmatized Greece with their professional course, their personal life, their ideas and even with their death.
On Friday, December 10, Idols is dedicated to Nikos Kourkoulos.
Nikos Kourkoulos, a theatrical man, a star of cinema but also a symbol of a generation of Greeks, characterized an entire era with his presence, personality and especially with the indelible mark he left on the collective Greek culture.
Sakis Rouvas unfolds the life of a real “idol” of theater and cinema from the unforgettable childhood years in Zografou and the unjust loss of his brother when the ship he worked on sank, until his football career and the “turn” towards theater. The premiere of the film “O KATIFOROS” that made him a star in one night at the age of 27 but also his decisive contribution to the reform of the National Theater.
“He found his soul in the theater,” colleagues and associates will say on the show. Nikos Kourkoulos remembered Sophocles’ “ANTIGONE” that was taught at school and he was fascinated by history – he was even more shocked by the tragedies that had befallen his family. A show with Manos Katrakis that he saw later, revealed to him the only way. Theater.
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People of letters and arts speak about Nikos Kourkoulos. He had participations in 37 films, won first prize for Best Actor in 1965 with “ADISTAKTOUS” and in 1970 with “ASTRAPOGIANNOS” but also nominated for the Tony Award in America with “ILLYA DARLING” – the transfer to BROADWAY of “NEVER ON SUNDAY” by Dassen next to Melina Mercouri.
In 1965 he fell in love with Melita Koutsogianni, with whom he married a year later and had two children with her. An important moment in his personal life and the acquaintance with his second life partner and later his wife Marianna Latsis, with whom he had two more children, and who accompanied him until the end, which came in 2007 after a six-year health adventure. .
His loved ones, friends and associates remember him with love and nostalgia.
“He was a man who practiced virtue without listeners and without spectators. Virtue was in him. ” will say Eleni Glykatzi Arveler, who remembers him for his Greekness.
“It was what you saw in the movies. A brave, handsome, man, a lad. Nice as a Greek. It changed everything at the National Theater. ” emphasizes Sotiris Hatzakis.
Aristides Kamaras remembers him for his talent in football and his great love for Panathinaikos.
“He was an idol of his time who had the maximum conditions that a star should have” says Giorgos Lianis, concluding that life gave greatness to Kourkoulos but hit him hard with the tragedies of his life and the adventure of his health, in which, he remembers, that Marianna Latsi was always by his side.
Karyophilia Karabeti remembers that everyone in the theater loved him, artists, administrative and technical staff. “It had created the feeling of a family inside the National Theater.” he tells us.
Lydia Koniordou will also speak about his ability in the management of the Theater. “He had experience of what it takes and how to run a theater.”
His daughter, Erietta, fondly remembers her father and recounts beautiful childhood memories, emphasizing that “It was the great love of her life.”
The journey of a real idol of theater and cinema, in Idols with Sakis Rouvas, on Friday, December 10 at 21.00, on SKAI.
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