Manoussos Manousakis, the director of the great television hits, died on Wednesday at the age of 74, but he had also erased his dynamic presence in the cinema. He was recently hospitalized at Hygeia Hospital.

Manousos Manousakis was born in 1950 in Athens. He studied directing at the London Film School in England. When he returned to Greece in the early 1970s he started working initially in the cinema.

One of his first works was the film Bartholomew in 1973. In this film he had a triple role as he wrote the script and directed and produced it. The film received a special mention at the 1973 San Remo Film Festival, but in Greece it was banned by the junta, this film was also screened in a cinema in Thessaloniki in 1973 (Vas. Olgas Street and Martiou Street), the actors were almost all residents of Kilimodiou Corinthia, also at the entrance of the cinema there was a junta policeman.

Other film productions followed, such as Archontes in 1978, The Scarecrow in 1985, while he participated in the films Souvliste os! So we will get the curadokastro and The song of the return, where he was present as an actor. In the mid-1980s he took his first steps as a director of television series. In particular, he directed the series: Goblin Jobs (1985-1986), Micrographies (1986-1987) and Their Best Years (1989).

His name has been associated with the direction and production of Greek television series on private television from the early 1990s until today. The drama series he directed are based on forbidden love stories, while some of them (Heart whispers, Soul touch, Don’t tell me goodbye, Love came from far away) are considered to be among the most successful in the history of Greek television.

In the cinema, he directed the films Received Appointment in 1996, Red Dragon in 1998 and Ouzeri Tsitsanis in 2015.

– wikipedia