“Yorgos Michalakopoulos was a truly shocking presence in the Greek theater, cinema and television”, emphasizes the KO of the New Left, expressing condolences to his family and colleagues.

It mentions in particular in its announcement about Giorgos Michalakopoulos:

“Starting at the Art Theater of Karolos Koon, he participated in the historic performance Ornithes of 1959, which radically changed the approach to the work of Aristophanes until then. A few years later, in 1973 in the middle of a dictatorship, he founded the Satiras Theater, where he staged works by great Greek authors, such as Kostas Mourselas and Pavlos Matesis. Throughout his long career, he played the roles of great playwrights of the foreign repertoire, among them Miller, Pinter, Moliere and Chekhov.

The television audience got to know him from Eltos and Eltos, where, in a text by Murselas and with Vassilis Diamantopoulos by his side, he created the role of the homeless Solon, who left an era. He then contributed with his collaboration with Kostas Koutsomytis on The Yellow File, Dyed Red Hair and Big Anger to the creation of a new standard of aesthetics in private television.

Every film appearance of his was a statement of his enormous talent, whether in the timeless popular comedies in the 60s, or in his participation in The View of Ulysses by Theodoros Angelopoulos, or in the leading role in the film The Gray Man by Pericles Hoursoglou.

Giorgos Michalakopoulos was also a progressive intellectual who, apart from the positions he expressed publicly, simultaneously combined his professional career with social contribution. The organization of a theater workshop in the 80’s in Korydallos prisons was an example of an alternative and essential political action”.