His last breath was left by the great director and actor Dimitris Kollatos at the age of 88.

The unpleasant news was announced by Spyros Bibilas on Thursday night with a post on his Instagram account.

“Goodbye my dear Dimitris .. From a child I loved you and loved me after being a classmate of my mother’s brother! How many discussions did we have together! How many shooting in your movies! How many summers in Aegina at the Greek cinema festival that organizers on your pistachio estate. Dimitris I will never forget your mind for Alkis! Alexander and all the kids will continue your work and remember close to them. In the last summer in Aegina you told me next year again !!! But you traveled … Have a nice journey of philosopher, director, writer, dream traveler … We will remember you, always Dimitris stick! “, Spyros Bibilas typically mentions in his post by saying goodbye to Dimitris Kollatos.

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He was born on June 9, 1937 in Athens. He wrote his first poetic collection in 1956, while he was a student in high school.

In 1959-1960 he founded the “Experimental Pocket Theater” by uploading, and the following two theatrical periods, in a basement on Stournari Street, Ionesco’s “Bald Singer”, “End of the Game” by Samuel Bekeet By Harold Pinter, a rainy afternoon by William Ing, “The Blessed” Rene de Obaldia. He directed Euripides’ “Ifigenia in Taurus” in the role of Iphigenia by Marieta Rialdi. On October 7, 1961, in Paris, he raised Euripides’ “Ifigenia in Taurus”, the Center Culturel starring: Arlette Baumann, Roger Jandly, Nicolas Ruffieux, M.-F. Bonte, F. Guiman. The French magazine “L’Express” described the show “A Spring in the French Theater”. Arlett Boman became his wife, from whom he had two sons, Alexander and Alkis, who starred in his films.

In 1962 he shot his first short film “Athens XII”, who was awarded in the [Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Θεσσαλονίκης]. It was followed by his mid -length film, “Olives” in 1964, which was also awarded. In 1966 his feature film, “Alexander’s Death”, was ignored by the official awards at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, but received three critics (Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Music) and has not only received artistic but also artistic success but also artistic but also artistic success. When he finally managed to air in Athenian cinemas he cut 29,900 tickets in a week. Manos Hadjidakis had said: “The most important film that was preceded by the Thessaloniki Festival, a truly powerful presence that left me with the courage and power of her capture, was Dimitris Kollatos’ film” Dimitris Kollatos “. This is the truly great film of the festival. Dimitris Kollatos is the first dramatist of Greek cinema. “

During the dictatorship in Greece, he settled permanently in France, where he uploaded 20 theatrical productions, creating the Théatre de l’Art in the same building of the Châtelet Satle in Paris. There he presented, among other things, the work of Philippe Pétain and his play “Socrates’ Woman”, a monologue starring Arlett Boman’s wife who uploaded to the Art Theater. The premiere took place on December 22, 1973. It was selected as the best show of the year, and presented at the Theater of Nations in Brussels and was repeated in January 1975 and September 1976. He also filmed the film “Symposium” (1972), on the subject of love and homosexuality. In 1974 he uploaded his play “Good evening Mr. Chekhov” with co -stars Arlett Boman and Fanny Ardan.

After his return to Greece in 1975, he began to raise a series of performances that were thought to be aimed at challenging (such as “Sodom and Gomorra” with naked at that time) or at least political and social activism and not the Art, such as “The Shipowners”, “Saint Preveza” which also made a film (1982), “The Doctors”. The so -called “Complaint Theater”. However, he won the sympathies with his militant stance on the rights of autistic children, rushed by his personal experience with his son Alkis, and the creation of a special space in Aegina for autistic children.

In the autobiographical film “Life with Alkis” (1988), the role of the autistic young man was played by his other son, Alexandros Kollatos, who was awarded a special mention for his interpretation of the role of his Autism, his brother. Alexander has since become an actor and director. Another movie, “Red Roses I Cut You” (1993), talks not only about the experience of a parent with an autistic child but also about the suicide of Arlett Boman’s wife. In his film “Alexander and Aisse” (1998), again starring his son Alexander, he approaches the subject of the Muslim minority through an erotic story. While the “Testament of the Priest Jean Mesliere” (2009), returns to the subject of religion and the role of the Church.

In France in 1977 he returned the mid -length “The France of Giscar”, a critical look in France of the 1970s.

On television he had his own show for a year entitled “Kollatos without censorship”. In 1989 and again in 2013 he applied for as a MEP. In 2011 he created the Citizens’ Union of Porta Corta, a new form of political intervention that organizes various “hopping” protests against political leadership, foreign forces intervention in the country, etc. In 2014, he filmed “Dionysus” on Greece on the topic of Greece. who participated in the Thessaloniki Festival.

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