“The famous star with timeless displacement, as it proved over the decades” says the Hellenic Cinema Center in a condolence message. Mary Chronopoulou “ran almost the entire thematic spectrum of fiction, from melodrama and ethnographic drama of open horizons to musicals and left a strong mark on the new Greek cinemao” emphasizes the message of the Hellenic Film Center.

“Mary Chronopoulou was a great lady of classical Greek cinema, an eminent star with a timeless displacement, as proved over the decades. It ran almost the entire thematic spectrum of fiction, from open-air melodrama and ethnographic drama to the musical. Vassilis Georgiadis’ “Greek Western” “The Soil Was Painted Red”, in which he starred in 1966, was nominated for an Oscar for Foreign Language Film. Mary Chronopoulou stood, sometimes airy and sometimes Doric, at the side of almost all the male protagonists of those years, next to Nikos Kourkoulos, Alekos Alexandrakis, Phaidonas Georgitsis, Giorgos Foundas. Her presence filled the film cadre of directors who were associated with the best moments of Finos Film, Vassilis Georgiadis, Dinos Dimopoulos, Yiannis Dalianidis, Nikos Foskolos. Mary Chronopoulou left a strong mark on the new Greek cinema as well. Among her great collaborations were those with Thodoros Angelopoulos (“The Hunters”, “Journey to Kythira”) and Costas Vrettakos (“The Swallow’s Children”). Her last leading role was in 1996 in the film “Towards Freedom” by Haris Papadopoulos. The Hellenic Cinema Center expresses its deepest condolences to her family» concludes the condolence message of the Hellenic Film Center.